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California  Resources  Agency  Library 

1416  9th  Street,  Room  117 

Sacramento,  California   95814 


CALIFORNIA  RESOURCES  AGENCY  UBRARy 

Resources  Buiiding,  Room  117 

1416  -9th  Street 

Sctcrctmsinro,  Ccilifornia 

95314 


STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 


Fish  and  Game  Commission 


TWENTY-SECOND  BIENNIAL  REPORT 


For  the  Years  1910-1912 


Friend  Wm.   Richardson,    Superintendent  of   State  Printing 

sacramento,  california 

1913 


CONTENTS. 


PART  ONE. 

Page. 

Personnel  and  Organization  of  Board 7 

Peace  Officers  and  Forest  Service  Cooperation S 

Salaried,  or  Regular  Officers 9 

Special   Deputies    ^ 

Program  and  Work 9 

What  tpie  Commission  Has  Done  in  Two  Years 12 

Recommendations    14 

Acknowledgments    ^ 15 

Game  Conditions  in  California 17 

Operation  of  State  Game  Farm 26 

Propagation  and  Distribution  of  Fisn  1910-1911 30 

Trout  Egg  Collection  and  Distribution  1910-1911 31 

Report  of  Superintendent  of  Hatcheries 32 

PART  TWO. 

Administrative   Districts    47 

Roster  of  Employees 48 

Inventory    51 

Revenues    and   Expenditures 52 

Seizures  and  Prosecutions Folder 

Hunting  Licenses  Issued 56 

Commercial  Fishing  Licenses  Issued 58 

Lion   Bounties    Paid 59 

Game  Bird  Distribution 60 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1911 63 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912 64 


LETTER  OF  TRANSMITTAL. 

San  Francisco,  Cal.,  December  31,  1912. 
Bon.  Hiram  W.  Johnson,  Governor, 

State  of  California,  Sacramento,  Cal. 

Sir:  In  accordance  with  law,  we  submit  for  your  consideration  a 
statement  of  the  transactions  and  disbursements  of  the  Board  for  the 
biennial  term  July  1,  1910,  to  June  30,  1912. 

We  are  also  including  certain  data  concerning  the  transactions  of  the 
Board  between  July  1,  1912,  and  the  date  of  this  report,  believing  that 
the  value  of  such  data  has  justified  holding  the  report  for  it.  Certain 
technical  reports  which  have  hitherto  been  included  in  the  Board's 
report  are  this  year  being  issued  in  separate  bulletins. 

Respectfully, 

F.  M.  NEWBERT,  President, 
M.  J.   CONNELL, 
CARL  WESTERFELD, 
Board  of  Fish  and  Game  Commissioners. 


CALIFORNIA  riSH  AND  GAME  COMMISSION. 

Commissioners,   1910-11. 

M.  J.  CONNELL Los  Angeles 

W.  G.  Henshaw San  Francisco 

F.  W.  Van  Sicklen Alameda 

Lendal  M.  Gray San  Francisco 

Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan Palo  Alto 

Geo.  v.  Steed San  Francisco 

F.   G.   Sanborn San   Francisco 

Chas.  a.  Vogelsang San  Francisco 

Chief  Deputy,   1910. 

John  P.  Babcock San  Francisco 

Chief  Deputy,  1910-11. 

Hartley  F.  Peart San  Francisco 

Attorney,  1910-11. 

Commissioners,  1911-12. 

M.  J.  Connell Los  Angeles 

F.  M.  Newbert Sacramento 

Carl  Westerfeld San  Francisco 

Ernest  Schaeffle San  Francisco 

Secretary,  1911-12. 

W.   H.   Shebley Sisson 

Superinten,dent  of  Hatcheries,  1911-12. 

U.   D.  Duke San   Francisco 

Attorney,  1911-12. 


PART  I.    GENERAL. 


TWENTY-SECOND  BIENNIAL  REPORT  OE  THE  BOARD  OE 
ElSn  AND  GAME  COMMISSIONERS. 


PERSONNEL   AND    ORGANIZATION. 

Since  July  1,  1910,  the  personnel  of  the  Board  has  been  as  follows: 
M.  J.  Connell,  W.  G.  Henshaw  and  F.  W.  Van  Sicklen  served  until 
November  3,  1910,  when  Lendal  M.  Gray  was  seated  as  a  member,  suc- 
ceeding F.  W.  Van  Sicklen,  resigned.  On  November  4,  1910,  Dr.  David 
Starr  Jordan  was  seated  as  a  member,  to  succeed  W.  G.  Henshaw. 
Upon  the  death  of  Commissioner  Gray  in  December  of  1910,  Geo.  V. 
Steed  was  appointed  to  serve,  but  was  never  seated  as  a  member  of  the 
Board.  F.  G.  Sanborn  was  seated  as  a  member  on  January  21,  1911, 
to  succeed  Mr.  Steed.  On  August  4,  1911,  F.  M.  Newbert  was  seated 
as  a  member  of  the  Board,  to  succeed  Dr.  David  Starr  Jordan,  resigned. 
Carl  Westerfeld  presented  his  credentials  on  January  2,  1912,  and  was 
thereupon  seated  as  a  member,  to  succeed  F.  G.  Sanborn. 

On  August  11,  1910,  John  P.  Babcock  assumed  the  position  of  Chief 
Deputy,  succeeding  Chas.  A.  Vogelsang,  who  had  been  the  Board's 
executive  officer  since  October  12,  1901. 

On  November  29,  1911,  the  Board  by  resolution,  abolished  the  position 
and  title  of  Chief  Deputy,  and  appointed  Ernest  Schaeffle  as  Secretary, 
to  succeed  Mr.  Babcock,  whose  resignation  had  been  tendered  and 
accepted  that  day. 

On  the  same  day  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  Hatcheries  was 
created,  and  W.  H.  Shebley,  Superintendent  of  Sisson  hatchery  since 
1893,  was  promoted  to  the  place.  Mr.  Shebley  has  remained  in  charge 
of  Sisson  hatchery,  being  assisted  in  the  management  by  R.  W.  Requa, 
assistant  superintendent,  and  has  in  addition  directed  the  Board's  work 
in  the  field  of  fish  culture  and  distribution.  During  the  past  nine 
months  Mr.  Shebley  and  his  assistants  have  also  made  surveys  of  prac- 
tically every  dam  and  other  stream  obstruction,  and  of  many  of  the 
ditches  and  canals  in  the  State  and  have  had  charge  of  the  construction 
of  fishways  and  screens. 

Hartley  F.  Peart,  who  had  acted  as  the  Board's  attorney  for  over 
five  years,  presented  his  resignation  on  February  6,  1912.  Mr.  Peart 's 
resignation  was  accepted  and  R.  D.  Duke  of  San  Francisco  appointed 
his  successor. 

Since  the  filing  of  the  Board's  last  report,  it  has  been  deemed 
expedient  to  form  a  new  administrative  district,  in  addition  to  the 
San  Francisco,  Los  Angeles  and  Fresno  districts,  already  existing.  The 
new  district  is  in  charge  of  Commissioner  Newbert,  with  an  office  in 


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the  Forum  building  in  Sacramento.  District  management  adds  to  the 
cost  of  administration  but,  in  the  Board's  opinion,  greatly  increases 
efficiency.  It  will  probably  be  found  necessary  within  the  next  two 
years  to  further  divide  the  northern  part  of  the  State. 

PROPERTIES. 

At  the  request  of  the  State  Controller  an  inventory  of  the  State's 
property  in  the  care  of  the  Board  was  taken  on  June  30th  of  the  present 
year.  A  skeleton  inventory  that  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  report 
shows  the  total  value  of  property  under  appropriate  headings. 

PEACE    OFFICERS. 

It  should  be  plainly  stated  at  this  time  that  the  enforcement  of  the 
fish  and  game  laws  of  the  State  has  been  left  almost  entirely  to  the 
Board,  except  in  those  communities  and  counties  so  fortunate  as  to 
possess  public  officers  alive  tp  their  responsibilities  and  to  the  value  of 
assisting  in  the  saving  of  one  of  the  State's  mo.st  important  assets. 
The  Board  has  received  and  appreciated  the  endorsement  and  support 
of  many  police,  prosecuting,  and  judicial  officers  in  the  State  and 
expresses  this  criticism  with  the  greatest  regret  and  the  knowledge  that 
it  will  cause  some  ill  feeling  and  friction.  The  property  of  the  people 
is  at  stake,  however,  and  we  feel  that  we  would  be  recreant  to  the  trust 
imposed  upon  us  if  we  did  not  call  attention  to  what  we  have  learned 
to  be  a  real  evil. 

Many  fish  and  game  officials  object  to  any  cooperation  between  game 
wardens  and  peace  officers,  arguing  that  no  one  but  a  specialist  is 
competent  to  act  in  work  that  is  so  peculiarly  a  specialty  as  fish  and 
game  wardenship.  The  argument  does  not  seem  a  sound  and  sufficient 
one,  although  we  must  grant  that  the  best  work  to  be  done  by  game 
wardens  can  only  be  done  by  officers  specially  and  thoroughly  trained 
in  the  ways  of  fish  and  game,  and  of  fishermen  and  hunters. 

FOREST   SERVICE  CO-OPERATION. 

The  Board  wishes  to  speak  of  the  splendid  assistance  it  has  received 
from  the  United  States  Forest  Service,  under  the  direction  of  District 
Forester  Coert  Du  Bois,  ably  assisted  by  the  supervisors  of  the  nineteen 
national  forests  (or  forest  reserves)  in  the  State.  Upon  the  recom- 
mendation of  Mr.  Du  Bois  and  the  supervisors,  the  Board  has  deputized 
over  three  hundred  forest  officers,  or  "rangers,"  and  knows  that 
splendid  work  has  been  accomplished  by  them. 

An  effective  cooperation  between  the  two  departments  is  made  pos- 
sible only  by  a  system  of  direct  supervision,  by  chief  forest  deputies  on 
each  forest,  devised  by  Mr.  Du  Bois.  Through  it  the  Board  is  relieved 
cf  the  necessity  of  issuing  instructions  to  and  receiving  reports  from 
over  three  hundred  active  men,  who  undoubtedly  are  more  efficiently 
and  satisfactorily  directed  by  their  own  chiefs.  Each  chief  forest 
deputy  files  a  special  report  with  the  head  office  of  the  Board  on  the 
first  day  of  January  and  on  the  first  day  of  July  of  each  year,  in  addi- 
tion to  keeping  up  a  more  or  less  regular  correspondence. 


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By  a  ruling  of  the  Forest  Service,  none  of  its  officers  can  receive 
compensation  for  assisting  in  the  enforcement  of  state  laws ;  it  has  been 
possible,  however,  for  the  Board  to  pay  the  expenses  necessarily  incurred 
by  forest  officers  in  the  prosecution  of  fish  and  game  cases. 

SALARIED,   OR   REGULAR   DEPUTIES. 

The  Board  has  a  force  of  deputies  (patrolmen  or  game  wardens)  dis- 
tributed over  the  State  at  the  present  time,  apportioned  to  districts  as 
follows :  San  Francisco,  24 ;  Sacramento,  29  ;  Los  Angeles,  11 ;  Fresno,  9. 

This  force  has  been  built  up  very  largely  since  1907,  when  the 
revenues  of  the  Board  were  increased  through  the  first  receipts  from 
hunting  license  sales,  and  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  constitutes  a  very 
effective  and  creditable  body  of  officers.  The  splendid  police  record 
made  by  these  men,  as  shown  in  the  statements  of  seizures  and  prosecu- 
tions, published  in  this  and  in  previous  reports,  is  the  highest  praise 
that  need  be  offered  them. 

The  state  "game  wardens"  of  California  are  probably  the  best 
paid  wardens  in  the  world,  and  the  Board  believes  that  every  man  on 
the  roll  is  worth  what  he  receives,  if  not  more.  Cheap  men  could  be 
obtained,  of  course,  but  men  who  can  do  the  work  needed  in  this  State 
are  not  cheap  men,  and  are  available  for  the  state's  service  only  as  they 
are  assured  of  proper  compensation. 

The  deputies,  or  "wardens"  in  each  administrative  district,  report 
to  the  Commissioner  or  deputy  in  charge  of  the  district  and  perform 
their  duties  as  directed  by  him.  The  head  office  has  only  the  most 
general  supervision  of  the  work  within  the  outside  districts  and  is 
seldom  recpiired  to  act  in  even  an  advisory  capacity. 

"OUTSIDE,"    OR   SPECIAL   DEPUTIES. 

The  special  deputies  assisting  in  the  Board's  work  now  number  about 
400  men,  exclusive  of  forest  officers.  Many  of  these  deputies  have 
records  that  compare  favorably  with  those  of  the  most  efficient  regular 
officers,  while  the  force  as  a  whole  serves  as  a  very  valuable  and  thor- 
oughly appreciated  auxiliary.  Even  if  little  police  work  were  done 
by  this  body  of  irregular  officers,  it  would  still  serve  as  a  training 
school  from  which  to  recruit  regular  deputies. 

Every  effort  is  made  to  keep  undesirable  candidates  out  of  this  force 
and  to  weed  out  with  the  least  possible  delay  all  those  who  prove  unfitted 
from  any  cause. 

The  special  deputies  receive  no  salaries,  but  are  paid  for  their  services 
in  prosecutions  and  are  sometimes  allowed  expenses, 

PROGRAM    AND    WORK. 

We  recognize  that  we  are  administering  a  public  trust,  that  to  us 
has  been  assigned  the  duty  of  protecting  and  conserving  the  fish  and 
game  interests  of  the  State  for  the  benefit  of  all  the  people,  and  that 
to  be  successful  we  must  have  their  active  cooperation.  "We  believe 
we  can  gain  their  confidence  and  support  by  keeping  the  people  fully 
informed  of  the  nature  and  scope  of  our  work.     We  shall  attempt  to 


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do  this  by  issuing  letters  and  bulletins  from  time  to  time,  as  well  as  by 
complying-  with  that  provision  of  the  law  which  specifically  requires 
this  Board  to  biennially  submit  to  the  Governor  a  full  report. 

We  aim  to  Avork  on  broad,  practical  and  economical  lines,  and  to 
make  the  Commission  something  more  than  a  police  force.  We  shall 
endeavor  to  enforce  the  laws  for  the  preservation  of  fish  and  game, 
and  to  stock  the  public  waters  of  the  State  with  food  and  game  fishes 
best  suited  to  them.  By  economic  and  scientific  investigations  we  hope 
to  disclose  the  life,  habits,  and  abundance  of  our  fish  and  game,  and 
the  conditions  most  favorable  to  conserve  and,  if  possible,  increase  the 
supply. 

We  shall  maintain  a  State  Game  Farm,  and  shall  use  every  efi^ort 
to  propagate  our  native  species  of  game,  and  in  particular,  the  valley 
quail,  recognized  as  one  of  the  finest  game  birds  in  the  world — and 
certainly  the  game  bird  best  suited  to  the  uplands  of  this  State. 

We  shall  continue  to  operate  the  fish  hatcheries  to  their  full  capacity, 
and  to  distribute  the  output  in  suitable  public  waters  in  every  section  of 
the  State.  We  will  not  stock  private  waters.  We  shall  give  to  the 
distribution  of  the  fish  produced  in  the  fish  hatcheries  the  greatest  care, 
endeavoring  not  only  to  see  that  the  young  fish  are  intelligently  liber- 
ated where  they  may  liest  thrive,  but  by  close  observation  to  ascertain 
the  success  of  such  methods,  and  to  ascertain  further  if  additional  and 
more  effective  measures  can  be  found. 

It  has  already  been  demonstrated  that  the  operations  of  the  hatch- 
eries and  the  stocking  of  streams  in  the  State  with  native  and  non- 
indigenous  fish  have  produced  great  results.  No  other  state  has  reaped 
as  great  reward  from  the  moneys  so  expended. 

We  believe  that,  notwithstanding  the  notable  success  that  has  already 
followed  the  introduction  and  the  acclimatization  of  new  food  and 
game  fishes  in  the  waters  of  this  State,  as  well  as  the  propagation  of 
our  native  fishes,  much  can  yet  be  accomplished;  that  our  waters  may 
be  made  to  produce  even  more  abundantly;  for,  notwithstanding  that 
this  Commission  has  been  in  existence  for  forty  years  and  has  accom- 
plished greater  results  than  any  similar  commission  in  the  United 
States,  very  little  attention  has  been  directed  to  a  study  of  the  life  and 
habits  of  any  of  our  food  fishes.  To  intelligently  conserve  and  increase 
our  aquatic  food  supply  it  is  essential  to  be  conversant  with  the  life, 
habits,  food,  abundance  and  the  principal  enemies.  Until  we  know  the 
time  and  place  where  our  food  fishes  propagate,  the  waters  frequented 
by  their  young,  and  the  conditions  essential  for  successful  development, 
we  can  not  proceed  intelligently.  And,  we  regret  to  say  that  until 
recently,  the  Commission  was  not  in  possession  of  sufficient  positive 
information  of  this  character.  To  obtain  such  knowledge,  we  have 
during  the  past  eighteen  months  begun  a  systematic  and  scientific  inves- 
tigation of  the  life  of  our  most  important  food  and  game  species.  For 
this  work  we  have  been  enabled  to  enlist  the  services  of  several  -well 
known  scientific  men. 


REPORT   OP   BOARD   OF    FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS.  11 

The  studj^  of  the  life,  abundance  and  the  conditions  most  favorable  to 
the  maintenace  of  our  edible  crab  (Cancer  magister)  was  begun  under 
the  auspices  of  the  Board  in  October  of  1910.  The  work  is  in  the  hands 
of  F.  W.  Weymouth  of  Stanford  University,  who  is  a  recognized 
authority.  At  the  time  this  investigation  was  instituted  little  was 
known  as  to  where  or  when  these  crabs  propagate,  or  the  life  of  their 
young. 

Professor  Harold  Heath  of  Stanford  University,  at  our  direction, 
began  in  December  of  1910  a  research  intended  to  disclose  the  life  and 
range  of  our  edible  clams.  Very  little  or  nothing  is  known  of  the  life 
of  these  valuable  mollusks.  There  appears,  however,  to  be  only  a 
Jimited  area  in  this  State  which  affords  opportunity  for  their  existence, 
and  in  consequence,  we  believe  that  there  is  great  danger  that,  with 
the  increasing  demand  and  the  present  unrestricted  methods  of  digging 
them,  the  clam  beds  of  the  State  may  be  speedily  exhausted.  We  hope, 
through  the  efforts  and  studies  of  Professor  Heath  and  his  assistants, 
to  be  able  to  lay  sufficient  facts  before  the  legislature  to  warrant  the 
adoption  of  measures  that  will  insure  the  future  supply. 

The  spiny  lobster,  or  "crawfish"  fishery  of  the  southern  coast  is  a 
very  important  one,  but  like  the  other  fisheries  has  been  greatly  reduced 
by  the  heavy  operations  of  recent  years.  To  obtain  the  accurate  infor- 
mation necessary  to  any  scheme  of  rehabilitation.  Professor  Bennet  M. 
Allen  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  was  engaged  in  July  of  1911  to 
make  a  study  of  this  animal.  Professor  Allen's  work  has  been  inter- 
rupted by  the  necessity  of  returning  to  his  university  for  teaching,  but 
it  is  hoped  that  a  continuance  of  his  investigation  may  lay  bare  many 
secrets  now  hidden. 

In  August  of  1911  Dr.  Chas.  L.  Edwards  of  the  University  of  South- 
ern California  undertook  a  study  of  our  abalones.  Dr.  Edward's 
preliminary  report,  which  will  be  found  in  the  Board's  1913  Fish 
Bulletin  No.  1,  is  a  very  complete  exposition  of  the  need  and  value  of 
his  particular  investigation. 

In  addition  to  the  investigation  that  we  have  begun  into  the  life 
history  of  our  principal  food  and  game  fishes,  we  have  also  instituted 
an  investigation  of  the  relations  of  certain  birds  to  the  agricultural 
interests  of  the  State.  Harold  C.  Bryant,  of  the  State  University  at 
Berkeley,  has  been  engaged  to  conduct  the  inquiry.  We  hope  to  show 
in  what  manner  each  doubtful  species  of  bird  affects  the  farmer  and 
the  fruit  grower,  and  what  measures  are  to  be  taken  to  encourage  the 
beneficial  birds  and  to  exterminate  the  injurious  ones. 

Believing  that  great  good  will  come  from  the  proper  education  of  our 
children  as  to  the  value  of  the  wild  birds  and  animals  to  the  farming 
interests  of  the  State,  and  not  alone  to  the  sportsmen  and  the  lovers 
of  nature,  we  have  engaged  the  services  of  Gretchen  L.  Libby,  late 
secretary  and  lecturer  for  the  Audubon  Society  of  California,  to  con- 
duct a  campaign  throughout  the  public  schools  of  the  State. 


12  REPORT    OP   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

In  March  of  the  present  year,  it  was  suggested  to  the  Board  by  Dr. 
C.  A.  Kofoid,  Professor  of  Zoology  of  the  University  of  California, 
that  there  was  urgent  need  of  a  scientific  study  of  the  deer  and  other 
large  game  animals  of  the  State.  Dr.  Kofoid  stated  that  the  study 
had  been  recommended  to  him  by  Dr.  Palmer  of  the  U.  S.  Biological 
Survey,  as  the  basis  for  advanced  conservation  measures,  without  which 
our  large  game  could  not  be  preserved.  Acting  upon  the  recommenda- 
tion of  Dr.  Kofoid  and  Dr.  Palmer,  Frank  C.  Clarke,  a  post-graduate 
student  of  the  University  of  California  was  employed  to  conduct  the 
investigation  mentioned.  Mr.  Clarke  has  traveled  over  much  of  the 
State  during  the  past  four  months,  obtaining  information  as  to  dis- 
tribution, numbers,  breeding  seasons,  etc.,  that  we  consider  of  much 
value.  A  preliminary  paper  wall  be  found  in  the  Board's  1913  Game 
Bulletin  No.  1. 

N.  B.  Scofield,  a  fishery  expert  who  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the 
Board  at  periods  for  a  number  of  years,  has  made  scientific  studies 
of  the  shrimp  and  salmon  during  the  past  two  years.  Mr.  Scofield  has 
also  assisted  in  stream  surveys  along  the  coast,  and  has  made  as 
thorough  a  study  as  his  time  has  permitted  of  the  operations  of  the 
trawl  fishermen  working  outside  the  Golden  Gate,  and  of  the  lampara 
net  fishermen  of  Monterey  Bay.  Several  of  Mr.  Scofield 's  reports 
appear  in  the  Board's  1913  Fish  Bulletin  No.  1. 

A  very  large  and  important  part  of  the  Board's  work  in  the  last  ten 
years  has  been  the  regulation  of  various  industries  in  order  to  prevent 
cr  minimize  the  pollution  of  the  State's  w^aters.  While  the  results 
obtained  are  not  yet  fully  satisfactory,  we  believe  that  the  Board's 
work  deserves  public  approval. 

Outside  of  cities  with  their  sewage,  the  principal  sources  of  stream 
pollution  at  present  are  quartz  mills  and  oil  refineries,  oil  loading 
stations  and  oil  carriers.  All  of  these  sources  are  now  in  the  way  of 
proper  handling,  after  the  expenditure  of  much  effort  and  money. 

As  will  be  shown  by  this  and  by  reports  filed  previously,  the  Board 
has  instituted  a  considerable  number  of  prosecutions  for  the  pollution 
of  State  waters.  By  far  the  greater  work,  however,  has  been  done 
in  obtaining  a  compliance  with  the  statutes  through  less  expensive 
and  tedious  means.  It  is  impossible  to  obtain  even  an  estimate,  but 
we  believe  that  $250,000  has  been  spent  at  the  Board's  direction  in  the 
past  two  years  in  constructing  oil  traps  and  settling  basins,  proper 
hose  and  pipe  connections,  acid  recovery  plants,  lampblack  and  oil-tar 
separators  and  filters,  sawdust  burners,  and  other  contrivances  and 
systems  having  as  their  sole  purpose  the  safeguarding  of  public  waters 
and  the  protection  of  the  aquatic  life  therein. 

WHAT  THE  COMMISSION  HAS  DONE  IN  TWO  YEARS. 

Has  taken  its  place  in  the  front  rank  of  state  fish  and  game  commis- 
sions by  instituting  and  prosecuting  scientific  investigations  of  game 


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and  fish,  in  almost  every  case  with  the  cooperation  or  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  State's  leading  universities. 

Has  placed  the  work  of  fish  culture  and  distribution  on  a  proper 
foundation  by  creating  the  position  of  Superintendent  of  Hatcheries, 
by  appointing  a  highly  qualified  expert  to  the  place,  and  by  then  allow- 
ing him  to  manage  the  department. 

Has  made  the  greatest  and  best  distribution  of  trout  (over  26,000,000) 
ever  made  in  the  State. 

Has  provided  a  department  of  game  conservation,  under  the  direction 
of  a  competent  expert,  which  in  time  will  be  as  important  as  the  fish 
cultural  department. 

Has  economically  managed  the  State  Game  Farm,  and  distributed 
more  pheasants  during  the  season  of  1912  than  were  distributed  during 
three  previous  years. 

Has  increased  the  force  of  wardens  by  over  twenty  men,  providing 
an  effective  patrol  for  every  part  of  the  State,  and  particularly  the 
northern  part. 

Has  increased  the  efficiency  of  the  wardens  by  detailing  special  dep- 
uties, the  Board's  attorney  and  others,  to  instruct  them  as  to  their 
duties  and  the  subjects  with  which  they  have  to  deal. 

Has  greatly  increased  the  efficiency  of  the  service  in  the  northern  part 
of  the  State  by  forming  the  Sacramento  district  from  a  district  that 
comprised  almost  fifty  per  cent  of  the  total  area  of  the  State,  and  by 
leaving  the  direction  of  business  in  this  district  to  the  President  of  the 
Board. 

Has  fairly  but  firmly  enforced  all  the  fish  and  game  laws  in  every 
part  of  the  State,  prosecuting  2,063  cases,  against  1,771  for  the  best 
previous  two-year  period.  (The  record  for  the  past  two  years  would  be 
much  greater  were  it  not  for  the  fact,  in  the  Board 's  opinion,  that  viola- 
tions are  becoming  less  and  less  common.) 

Has  aroused  public  interest  in  fish  and  game  conservation  by  direct- 
ing and  otherwise  aiding  in  the  formation  of  a  great  and  representative 
protective  organization,  with  a  membership  of  over  16,000  people,  scat- 
tered through  every  county  in  the  State.   • 

Has  made  surveys  of  almost  every  stream  and  lake  and  other  body  of 
water  in  the  State,  disclosing  the  fact  that  hundreds  of  square  miles 
of  water  have  passed  out  of  control  of  the  public,  and  that  hundreds  of 
square  miles  are  still  entirely  barren  or  have  no  valuable  fish. 

Has  made  a  comprehensive  survey  of  the  natural  and  artificial  water- 
ways of  the  State,  following  this  by  directing  the  construction  of  hun- 
dreds of  screens  and  fishways. 

Has  watched  the  disposition  of  factory  and  other  waste  products, 
instituting  prosecutions  and  otherwise  striving  to  abate  known  causes 
of  damage. 

Has  removed  rocks,  timber  blockades  and  other  obstructions  in  a  num- 
ber of  streams  in  northern  California. 

Has  transplanted  hundreds  of  thousands  of  trout,  black  bass  and 


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striped  bass  from  overflow  waters  along  the  coast  and  in  the  interior 
valley. 

•  Has  been  one  of  the  first  commissions  in  the  country  to  provide  its 
patrolmen  with  motorcycles,  thus  reducing  transportation  expenses  and 
greatly  increasing  efficiency  of  force. 

Has  perfected  a  cooperation  of  effort  with  the  U.  S.  Forest  Service^ 
v\-hereby  the  State  secures  without  cost  the  services  of  over  400  highl;s 
trained  officers,  almost  all  of  whom  are  located  in  the  best  fish  and  gamt 
regions. 

Has  from  the  head  office  alone  written  or  issued  about  25,000  indi- 
vidual letters,  50,000  copies  of  circular  letters,  325,000  abstracts,  or 
synopses  of  the  fish  and  game  laws,  12,500  game  law  posters,  8,000  copies 
of  the  Board's  compilation  of  the  fish  and  game  laws,  thousands  of  copies 
of  the  several  bulletins  and  reports  already  issued,  and  a  great  deal 
of  other  matter.  (About  300  newspapers  and  periodicals  in  the  State 
are  on  the  Board's  mailing  list;  to  them  all  is  sent  each  month  a  state- 
ment of  the  lion  bounties  paid  for  the  previous  month,  another  state- 
ment of  the  searches,  seizures  and  arrests  made  by  the  different  districts, 
and  a  statement  of  the  Board's  expenditures  for  the  month  past.  If  any 
of  these  statements  are  omitted  for  a  month  or  more,  a  statement  cover- 
ing the  elapsed  time  is  issued.) 

Has  made  studies  of  general  fish  and  game  conditions,  and  of  fishing 
methods  and  apparatus,  through  the  Superintendent  of  Hatcheries,  the 
Assistant  in  Charge  of  Game  Conservation,  and  other  scientific  assist- 
ants, and  by  deputies. 

Has  made  a  systematic  study  of  the  climatic  and  other  conditions 
that  determine  the  distribution  of  plant  and  animal  life,  with  the  idea 
of  preventing  the  loss  of  effort,  time  and  money  that  has  occurred  in 
the  past  through  experiments  in  game  introduction  and  transplantation 
that  were  not  based  on  knowledge  of  vital  facts. 

RECOMMENDATIONS. 

It  will  be  noted  that  the  Board  offers  no  recommendations  as  to 
changes  in  existing  legislation  or  the  provision  of  new.  The  follow-ing 
quotation  from  a  letter  issued  by  the  Board  during  the  fall  of  1911 
sets  forth  fully  the  attitude  of  the  present  Commission  and  explains 
its  deviation  from  an  old  practice : 

"It  has  often  been  said  that  the  fish  and  game  laws  of  the 
State  of  California  were  passed  in  the  interest  of  a  favored  few, 
to  the  prejudice  of  the  great  mass  of  the  citizens  of  our  State. 

Such  impression  has  gone  forth,  doubtless,  by  reason  of  the 
fact  that  the  people  generally  have  had  but  little,  if  any,  voice 
in  suggesting  or  proposing  legislation  upon  the  subject,  resulting 
in  lack  of  co-operation  by  the  people  with  the  Commission,  without 
which  co-operation  neither  beneficial  laws  can  be  pa.ssed,  nor 
material  progress  be  made. 

The  Commission  sincerly  desires  the  active,  hearty  and  earnest 


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co-operation  of  all  the  people  of  this  State  in  the  great  work  which 
is  before  it. 

This   Commission  will  be   for   the   people,    and   it   wants   their 
expression  as  to  the  laws  most  suitable  for  their  districts.     In 
other  words,  it  wants  the  people  of  the  great  State  of  California 
to  say  to  the  Commission,  'We  want  this  and  we  want  that,'  and 
not  for  the  Commission  to  say,  '  We  will  give  you  this  and  we  will 
give  you  that.'  " 
Such  recommendations  as  may  be  found  in  this  report  are  to  be 
considered  as  representing  the  personal  views  of  the  specialists  sub- 
mitting them.     The  Board  does  not  necessarily  endorse  any  of  them. 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 

The  Board  desires  to  express  its  sense  of  deep  obligation  to  the  State 
<^.ommissions  and  departments,  and  to  the  universities,  scientific  insti- 
tutions and  individual  scientists  in  the  State  and  country,  whose 
hearty  support  during  the  past  two  years  has  made  possible  the  prose- 
cution of  many  technical  investigations.  Particularly  is  the  Board 
indebted  to  the  University  of  California,  the  University  of  Southern 
California  and  to  Leland  Stanford  Junior  University,  for  not  only 
support,  but  for  active  effort  and  the  direction  of  difficult  studies. 

We  wish  also  to  thank,  personally  and  officially,  the  many  railroad 
and  other  transportation  officials  in  the  State,  through  whose  unfailing 
courtesy  the  transportation  of  fish  and  attendants  and  special  em- 
ployees, has  been  possible.  Without  the  free  and  reduced  rate  trans- 
portation of  fish  and  fish  eggs  and  game,  that  has  been  provided  by 
the  Southern  Pacific,  the  Western  Pacific,  the  Sierra,  the  Northwestern 
Pacific,  the  Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and  Transportation,  the  Nevada- 
California  and  Oregon  and  other  railway  companies  and  by  the  Pacific 
Coast  Steamship  Company  and  the  Wells  Fargo  and  Globe  Express 
Companies,  the  distribution  made  by  the  Board  would  have  been  but 
a  part  of  the  gratifying  total  reported. 

In  concluding  this  report  we  desire  to  state  that  during  the  year 
that  has  just  past  every  possible  encouragement  and  assistance  has 
been  given  by  the  public.  Any  success  that  may  have  crowned  our 
undertakings  must  be  credited  to  this  favorable  and  growing  senti- 
ment. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

F.   M.   NEWBERT,   President, 
M.   J.   CONNELL, 
CARL   WESTERFELD, 

Board  of  Fish  and  Game  Commissioners. 


Mexican  Wild  Turkey   {Meleagris  gallopavo) . 


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GAME  CONDITIONS  IN  CALIFORNIA. 

By  J.  S.  HuNTEB, 
In  charge  Game  Conservation,  Fish  and  Game  Commission. 

As  a  people  we  have  been  slow  to  realize  the  importance  of  the  wild 
life  of  our  country.  Our  love  of  hunting  has  caused  the  extermina- 
tion of  some  our  characteristic  varieties  of  game.  In  our  desire  to 
have  a  full  game  bag  to  our  credit,  we  have  been  reaching  out  to  the 
more  inaccessible  places  where  game  still  approaches  the  conditions 
that  were  formerly  common  throughout  the  entire  country.  This 
desire  to  protect  and  cherish  that  with  which  we  were  so  abundantly 
favored  has  not  kept  pace  with  the  ability  to  kill ;  so  that  at  the  present 
time,  there  is  in  many  of  the  states  practically  no  game. 

In  our  own  State,  while  there  is  not  an  abundance  of  game,  enough 
will  still  remain  if  judgment  is  used  in  the  killing  that  the  generations 
to  come  will  find  a  state  in  which  game  still  flourishes  and  in  which 
the  man  who  enjoys  the  most  fascinating  of  all  sports,  may  go  into 
the  field  with  his  gun  and  dog  and  participate  in  the  pleasure  of  his 
forefathers. 

Our  game  animals  are  so  valuable  that  the  title  to  them  has  been 
retained  by  the  State.  Of  late  years,  the  right  to  take  this  game  has 
been  refused  until  a  hunting  license  was  secured.  The  law  compelling 
a  license  has  been  one  of  the  most  popular  that  has  ever  been  enacted, 
not  only  in  California,  but  in  every  state  in  which  it  has  been  adopted. 
Millions  of  dollars  are  invested  in  our  State  in  guns  and  other  hunting 
paraphernalia.  This  sum  has  been  variously  estimated  as  reaching 
into  nine  figures.  It  is  perhaps  safe  to  say  that  it  is  not  less  than 
twenty-five  million  dollars.  Add  to  this  sum  the  amount  that  the  score 
of  clubs  throughout  the  State  have  invested  in  land  and  buildings  and 
it  will  probably  total  over  one  hundred  million  dollars.  There  are 
sold  in  California  alone  every  year  twenty-eight  million  shotgun  shells. 
Every  industry  benefits  from  the  fact  that  there  is  game  in  our  State. 
Railroads  run  special  hunters'  trains  during  the  open  seasons.  The 
opening  of  the  season  is  made  the  feature  of  window  displays  through- 
out the  State.  Plotels  and  resorts,  even  small  towns,  owe  their  very 
existence  to  the  fact  that  they  are  established  in  a  game  country.  To 
a  great  extent,  the  sturdiness  of  the  American  people  can  be  attributed 
to  their  love  for  hunting  and  outdoor  amusements.  A'  state  in  which 
game  flourishes  attracts  people  from  all  over  the  world.  The  value  of 
land  is  increased  by  there  being  game  upon  it. 

There  are  present  in  California  so  many  different  conditions  of 
climate  and  topography  that  it  is  almost  impossible  to  create  a  blanket 
fish  and  game  law.  When  deer,  for  example,  are  in  proper  condition 
to  be  killed  in  one  section,  they  are  out  of  condition  in  another.     Two 

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years  ago  the  legislature  divided  the  State  into  game  districts.  Those 
selected  were  based  upon  artificial  boundary  lines  without  sufficient 
regard  to  natural  conditions.  In  order  to  be  satisfactory,  districts 
must  be  based  upon  faunal,  geographic  and  climatic  conditions.  In 
another  part  of  this  report  will  be  found  a  suggestive  districting 
scheme,  which  we  believe  will  be  far  more  satisfactory. 

The  present  condition  of  game  in  the  State  is  far  from  satisfactory. 
It  is  possible  to  secure  the  bag  limit  of  any  variety  of  game  in  any 
part  of  the  State  only  with  a  great  deal  of  difficulty.  This  is  not 
necessarily  due  to  the  lack  of  enforcement  of  our  present  game  laws, 
but  to  the  fact  that  the  seasons  are  too  long,  not  rightly  placed,  that 
the  number  of  hunters  has  been  increasing  year  by  year,  and  to  numer- 
ous other  causes. 

DEER. 

It  is  reported  in  many  parts  of  the  State  that  deer  are  on  the 
increase.  In  view  of  the  greater  number  of  hunters,  this  is  remark- 
able if  it  is  correct;  but  it  is  doubtful  whether  careful  investigation 
will  uphold  the  current  reports.  There  are  probably  killed  in  the 
State  each  year  by  hunters,  10,000  deer.  Records  were  secured  in 
1911  of  nearly  7,000,  and  it  is  safe  to  assume  that  at  least  3,000  more 
were  killed.  It  has  been  estimated  that  every  mountain  lion  will  kill 
at  least  52  deer  a  year.  Place  the  lion  population  at  250  and  we  can 
charge  up  13,000  deer  to  lions.  Coyotes  and  other  varmints  will 
without  doubt  bring  the  total  number  of  deer  killed  up  to  the  neigh- 
borhood of  30,000.  In  average  years  the  natural  death  rate  is  not 
great;  most  of  them  meet  violent  deaths,  so  that  30,000  can  be  fairly 
accurately  placed  as  the  number  of  deer  dead  from  all  causes  in  the 
State. 

ELK  AND   ANTELOPE. 

Of  the  thousands  of  elk  and  antelope  that  formerly  ranged  in  our 
State,  we  now  have  but  a  few  scattered  bands,  feeble  reminders  to  fill 
us  w^th  remorse  for  the  protection  we  did  not  give  such  magnificent 
game.  In  the  San  Joaquin  Vallej^  near  Button  Willow  and  in  the 
Sequoia  National  Park  range  are  all  that  are  left  of  the  thousands  of 
"tule"  elk  that  formerly  were  found  throughout  the  San  Joaquin  and 
Sacramento  valleys.  This  species  is  peculiar  to  California.  They  now 
number  between  400  and  500  head.  It  is  reported  that  twenty  odd  years 
ago  the  band  had  decreased  to  less  than  twenty  head.  Since  that  time 
they  have  been-  given  protection  by  the  Miller  &  Lux  Company  and 
have  now  increased  to  their  present  number.  On  account  of  the  size 
of  this  herd,  it  will  soon  be  necessary  for  the  State  to  take  care  of 
them,  as  no  private  interest  can  stand  the  expense  of  so  great  a  num- 
ber of  large  animals  ranging  at  will  through  fences  and  over  fields. 
The  writer  and  Professor  Grinnell  of  the  University  of  California 
during  the  past  summer  visited  this  section  of  the  State,  and  a  plan 


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was  formulated  which  it  is  believed  would  result  in  properly  caring  for 
the  "tule"  elk.  It  is  hoped  that  something  along  the  lines  suggested 
by  Professor  Grinnel  in  the  following  report,  can  be  adopted : 

Berkeley,  Califoknia,  June  13,  1912. 

State  Fish  and  Game  Commission, 

San  Francisco,  California. 

Gentlemen:  I  submit  herewith  a  statement  in  regard  to  the  dwarf  elk  {Cervus 
nannodes ) ,  as  it  occurs  at  the  present  time  in  the  San  Joaquin  basin.  This  infor- 
mation was  obtain  largely  by  Mr.  J.  S.  Hunter  and  myself  during  the  last  ten  days 
in  April,  1912.  During  this  period  we  explored  the  district  west  from  Bakersfield, 
in  Kern  and  San  Luis  Obispo  counties. 

According  to  the  consensus  of  the  accounts  given  us  by  old  residents  of  the 
region,  elk  formerly  ranged  in  considerable  numbers  throughout  the  Sacramento 
and  San  Joaquin  basins,  south  to  the  immediate  environs  of  Bakersfield,  thence 
west  through  the  inner  coast  ranges  and  intervening  valleys  as  far  as  the  plains  of 
the  Cuyama  Valley,  in  San  Luis  Obispo  County,  and  extreme  northern  Santa  Bar- 
bara County.  Before  they  had  become  much  reduced  in  numbers,  in  the  sixties,  elk 
occupied  most  of  the  tule  swamp  region  of  the  bed  of  the  San  Joaquin  Valley.  On 
this  account  this  species  of  elk  has  been  frequently  called  the  "Tule"  elk.  The 
animal,  however,  ranged  up  into,  and  through,  the  barren  ranges  of  hills  all  along 
the  west  side  from  west  of  Tulare  Lake  south  to  the  vicinity  of  Maricopa. 

By  the  year  1874  the  elk  had  disappeared  throughout  nearly  all  of  this  territory. 
One  report  has  it,  that  in  1874  but  one  single  pair  of  elk  remained  between  Tulare 
and  Buena  Vista  lakes.  These  were  on  the  property  of  Henry  Miller.  This  gentle- 
man decided  to  save  this  remnant  if  possible,  and  offered  large  rewards  for  infor- 
mation leading  to  the  identity  of  any  one  molesting  the  animals.  It  is  said  that  the 
fine  herd  of  elk  now  existing,  has  descended  from  this  pair  of  animals  preserved  by 
Mr.  Miller. 

The  cause  of  the  rapid  decrease  in  the  original  numbers  of  elk  is  said  to  have 
been  due  to  hunters,  who  make  it  a  business  to  "jerk"  elk  meat,  and  sell  it  to  pros- 
pectors on  the  desert. 

It  would  appear  that  the  dwarf  elk  never  ranged  outside  of  the  lower  Sonoran 
life  zone  within  the  San  Joaquin-Sacramento  basin.  There  was,  however,  a  slight 
seasonal  shifting.  To  this  day,  the  does  go  up  into  the  hills  during  the  season  when 
the  fawns  are  born.  At  this  time,  too,  bands  of  bucks  range  high  into  the  hills,  but 
not,  generally,  above  the  limits  of  the  temperature  conditions  existing  in  the  lower 
Sonoran  zone. 

The  point  I  wish  to  bring  out  here  is  that  this  species  of  elk  can  not  be  expected 
to  thrive  if  transported  into  any  other  faunal  area  than  that  in  which  it  was  origi- 
nally native.  There  is  no  barrier  to  prevent  the  dwarf  elk  spreading  high  up  into 
the  pine  lelt  of  the  Siorra,  or  pvcn  into  the  Mojave  dts'vt,  or  west  into  the  coast 
district.     But  they  did  not  go,  finding  the  different  climatic  conditions  prohibitive. 

The  rate  of  reproduction,  that  is,  the  rate  of  increase,  of  the  dwarf  elk  is  believed 
to  amount  to  the  doubling  of  the  herd  every  four  years,  as  long  as  conditions  remain 
normally  favorable.  It  is  obviously,  however,  impossible  for  such  a  rate  of 
increase  to  have  been  maintained  since  the  original  nucleus  of  the  herd  was  first 
given  protection.  It  is  probable  that  there  are  good  grounds  for  believing  the  num- 
erous rumors,  that  there  has  been  more  or  less  poaching,  even  up  to  within  a  very 
few  years. 

Our  investigations  in  April  resulted  in  our  belief  that  there  are  at  the  present 
time  very  close  to  400  head  of  elk  ranging  from  Buena  Vista  Lake  to  the  vicinity 
of  Button  Willow  and  thence  west  into  the  elk  hills ;  and  as  far  as  known,  these  are 
all  of  thf  representatives  of  the  species  in  existence,  save  for  a  few  which  were 
removed  in  1904  to  the  Sequoia  National  Park,  and  a  very  few  in  confinement  else- 
where. The  main  herd  remains  a  large  part  of  the  time  on  the  valley  lands  belonging 
to  Miller  &  Lux,  and  the  Kern  County  Land  Company. 

There  is  no  denying  the  fact  that  the  presence  of  this  great  number  of  animals 
running  at  large,  inflicts  serious  injury  to  these  properties.  We  saw  elk  crowd 
throi(f/h  fences  and  trample  fields  of  standing  grain.  I  am  informed  upon  good 
authority,  that  it  is  estimated  that  on  the  Miller  &  Lux  property  alone,  $5,000 
worth  of  damage  is  done  each  year  by  the  elk,  in  breaking  fences,  and  in  trampling 
alfalfa  and  grain  outside  of  what  forage  they  actually  consume. 


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The  elk  pay  absolutely  no  attention  to  the  ordinary  cattle  fence.  We  saw  them 
go  over  both  barbed-wire  and  rail  fences  with  the  greatest  ease.  The  elk  prefer, 
however,  to  crowd  through  if  they  can,  as  we  observed  in  several  cases. 

The  problem  presenting  itself  for  immediate  action  on  the  part  of  every  one  inter- 
ested, is  that  of  securing  a  permanent  range.  Everything  points  towards  the  rapid 
subdividing  of  the  large  land  holdings  into  farms.  No  single  owner  can  then  stand 
the  ravages  of  the  elk.  It  is  not  for  a  moment  to  be  supposed  that  any  one  advocates 
the  unlimited  protection  of  elk  under  the  present  conditions  of  rapid  settlement  of 
the  California  valleys.  It  is,  however,  consistent  with  the  highest  ideals  of  con- 
servation that  at  least  a  representation  of  the  animal  be  preserved  in  as  nearly  their 
native  surroundings  for  all  time.  The  steps  leading  to  this  consummation  must  be 
taken  at  once,  while  there  is  yet  the  opportunity  of  securing  adequate  areas  of  land 
in  their  native  domain. 

Nothing  is  more  certain  than  that  only  failure  can  attend  any  attempt  to  move 
the  elk  from  the  limits  of  their  native  range.  This  was  abundantly  proven  by  the 
disastrous  results  of  the  "drive"  of  1904  when  the  attempt  was  made  to  remove 
the  entire  herd  to  the  Sequoia  National  Park. 

The  following  suggestion  has  been  made,  as  receiving  favorable  consideration  by 
several  persons  qualiiied  to  judge,  who  are  intimately  interested  in  the  problem : 
That  three  sections  of  land  be  acquired,  one  of  these  to  be  located  in  the  bed  of  the 
valley  between  Buena  Vista  and  Tulare  lakes,  the  other  two  to  lie  to  the  westward, 
up  into  the  elk  hills.  The  first  designated  section  should  be  of  first  class  land 
(which  is  now  valued  in  that  vicinity  at  $100  an  acre — $64,000  for  the  section). 
This  section  of  arable  land  would  have  to  be  purchased  or  donated,  but  it  is  prob- 
able that  the  adjacent  two  sections  of  desert  land  could  be  secured  under  some  sort 
of  lease  from  the  Federal  Government. 

The  three  square  miles  thus  indicated  would  have  to  be  completely  fenced  to  keep 
the  elk  from  doing  depredations  to  the  surrounding  country.  A  special  elk-proof 
fence  would  have  to  be  constructed,  and  at  a  cost  of  $800  to  $900  per  mile.  Such  a 
fence  would  have  to  be  at  least  seven  feet  high,  and  of  such  materials  that  elk  could 
not  break  through.  Of  the  arable  section  of  land,  at  least  250  acres  should  be 
grown  to  alfalfa.  This  in  connection  with  the  native  forage  on  the  uplands  would 
support  about  500  elk. 

It  is  suggested  that  further  increase  of  elk  could  doubtless  be  disposed  of  from 
year  to  year  for  eating,  or  for  stocking  elsewhere.  Such  sale  might  establish  the 
means  of  permanent  support,  to  defray  the  salary  of  a  man  continually  in  charge, 
and  the  extra  labor  necessary  in  haying  time. 

The  above  brief  outline  for  the  establishment  of  a  refuge  for  the  dwarf  elk  I 
believe  to  be  not  only  feasible  but  immediately  necessary  if  we  are  to  expect  the 
preservation  of  this,  one  of  the  most  interesting  species  of  native  game  animal  in 
California.  It  seems  to  me  that  the  State  Board  of  Fish  and  Game  Commissioners 
could  carry  out  the  necessary  details  with  much  less  difiiculty  than  at  the  outset 
might  be  anticipated.  Successful  accomplishment  would  bring  everlasting  commen- 
dation for  the  far  sightedness  of  this  undertaking. 

Respectfully  submitted  and  recommended. 

(Signed)  J.  GRINNELL, 

Museum  of  Vertebrate  Zoology, 

University  of  California. 

Besides  the  "tule"  elk,  another  variety  is  found  in  very  small  num- 
bers in  the  more  humid  parts  of  the  State,  in  Humboldt  and  Del  Norte 
counties.  On  account  of  the  nature  of  the  country,  which  is  covered 
with  timber  and  brush  where  this  species  range,  it  is  difficult  to  accur- 
ately estimate  their  numbers.  There  are  several  small  bands,  number- 
ing from  six  to  twelve  animals.  It  is  safe  to  say  that  they  do  not  total 
over  200  individuals.  The  people  living  in  that  part  of  the  State  are 
cooperating  in  ensuring  these  animals  absolute  protection,  and  it  is  to 
be  hoped  that  they  may  be  saved. 

The  antelope  is  more  extensively  distributed.  A  few  are  still  found 
in  the  desert  region  bordering  on  the  Colorado  River  in  the  extreme 
southeastern  part  of  the  State ;  some  are  also  found  in  Antelope  Valley, 


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in  the  northeastern  part  of  Los  Angeles  County,  while  in  western  San 
Joaquin  Valley  the  largest  band  of  the  State  is  found.  These  number 
upwards  of  150  individuals.  In  Modoe,  Lassen  and  Siskiyou  counties 
there  are  several  small  bands.  All  told,  there  are  probably  about  600 
antelope  left  in  the  State.  The  antelope  does  not  take  well  to  domestic 
conditions.  They  tame  easily,  but  up  to  the  present  time,  no  success 
has  been  had  in  the  breeding  and  raising  of  them  in  captivity.  The 
adult  animals  soon  lose  their  vitality  and  in  a  few  months  will  pine  away. 
If  some  part  of  our  State  that  is  adapted  to  the  antelope  could  be  set 
aside  as  an  antelope  range,  where  they  would  be  given  absolute  protec- 
tion, it  is  believed  that  this  species  could  be  perpetuated.  If  such 
refuge  should  be  established,  it  will  be  necessary  to  keep  sheep  from 
grazing  on  the  land,  as  antelope  and  sheep  will  not  get  along  together. 
As  a  rule,  the  land  where  antelope  is  found  is  abnost  worthless  from  the 
grazing  or  agricultural  standpoint.  The  antelope  is  one  of  the  most 
interesting  of  our  North  American  game  animals,  and  if  by  reasonable 
effort  we  can  save  them,  we  will  be  well  repaid  for  our  trouljle. 

MOUNTAIN    SHEEP. 

The  mountain  sheep  still  flourish  in  considerable  numbers  in  the 
southeastern  part  of  the  State.  Formerly  they  ranged  over  the  entire 
Sierra  Nevada  region  and  across  into  the  lower  Coast  Range  as  far  north 
as  San  Luis  Obispo  County,  but  they  now  are  restricted  to  the  most 
inaccessible  portions.  Professor  Grinnel  of  the  University  of  California 
has  about  completed  a  report  on  the  present  status  of  this  magnificent 
game  animal.  This  report  will  probably  be  published  shortly  by  the 
Commission. 

BEAR. 

Many  of  our  most  valuable  animals  as  yet  have  received  no  consider- 
ation from  the  law.  The  grizzly  bear  is  practically  extinct.  There  are 
probably  not  half  a  dozen  left  in  the  State.  The  common  brown  or 
black  bear  is  fairly  abundant  in  some  parts.  It  is  for  the  most  part  a 
harmless  species,  feeding  on  roots,  berries,  grubs  and  insects.  Rarely 
does  a  bear  kill  sheep  or  hogs.  Occasionally  a  sheep-killing  bear  may  be 
reported,  but  it  is  an  exception  to  the  general  rule.  They  are  naturally 
timid  animals,  only  becoming  vicious  when  wounded  and  cornered. 
The  least  unnatural  sound  will  cause  a  bear  to  run  for  miles.  The  pelt 
cf  a  well  colored  bear  in  prime  condition  is  worth  from  $20.00  to  $40.00. 
The  law  should  not  allow  their  being  killed  except  when  the  pelt  is  prime. 

FUR-BEARING  ANIMALS.  i 

Few  people  realize  the  importance  of  the  fur-bearing  animals  in  our 
State.  Each  year  furs  worth  nearly  $200,000  are  shipped  to  the  various 
fur  centers.  Under  our  present  law  none  of  the  fur-bearing  aniihd.ls  is 
protected.  The  killing  of  them  is  allowed  in  every  season  o£  the  year. 
They  are  worthless  during  the  summer  months  but  exceedingly  vMuable 
during  the  winter.  The  killing  of  the  more  valuable  aiid  least  jiredatory 
species  should  be  prohibited  when  their  fur  is  of  no  valtie. 


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WILD    DUCKS   AND    GEESE. 

The  most  abundant  game  birds  in  the  State  are  ducks  and  geese, 
although  neither  of  them  are  nearly  as  numerous  as  they  were  in  former 
years.  Ducks  formerly  bred  in  abundance  throughout  the  entire  State. 
Now,  owing  to  the  reclamation  of  land  and  also  to  the  late  spring 
shooting,  the  only  species  that  breed  commonly  are  the  cinnamon  teal 
and  fulvous  tree  duck.  The  e  species  leave  the  State  during  the  fall 
months  and  are  not  heavily  killed  by  duck  hunters.  The  only  places 
-where  other  varieties  breed  commonly  are  in  the  lakes  throughout  the 
Sierra  region. 

There  were  killed  in  California  last  year  approximately  one  million 
ducks.  These  birds  cost  the  hunter  at  least  fifty  cents  each.  Some 
authorities  consider  that  they  cost  a  dollar.  Even  at  fifty  cents,  it  can 
be  easily  understood  what  the  wild  ducks  are  worth  to  the  people  of  the 
State.  Numerous  species  of  geese  are  becoming  exceedingly  scarce. 
The  practice  of  using  live  decoys  and  animal  blinds  has  reduced  their 
1: umbers  to  a  very  small  fraction  of  what  they  were  formerly.  Experi- 
ments should  be  carried  on  to  ascertain  if  the  geese  do  the  damage  that 
is  attributed  to  them.  A  certain  amount  of  pasturing  of  young  grain 
has  been  found  to  increase  the  crop.  It  is  possible  that  in  some  of  the 
grain  fields  of  the  interior,  the  work  of  the  geese  has  increased  rather 
than  decreased  the  amount  of  grain  produced.  Without  doubt,  the 
killing  of  geese  should  be  more  restricted  than  it  is  at  present. 

SHORE   BIRDS. 

Our  present  law  on  shore  birds  is  extremely  ambiguous.  The  season 
should  open  and  close  for  all  species  at  the  same  time.  The  different 
species  are  not  well  known  to  most  hunters  and  quite  often  a  law-abiding 
man  unconsciously  violates  the  law.  To  allow  the  season  for  any  water 
})ird  to  run  as  late  as  the  first  of  May  is  directly  contrary  to  the  advice  of 
men  who  have  made  a  study  of  spring  shooting.  Many  of  the  shore 
])irds  are  now  on  the  verge  of  extinction  and  it  would  be  well  to  consider 
taking  them  off  the  list  of  game  birds.  There  is  no  more  harmless 
proup  of  birds  in  the  State,  so  far  as  the  agricultural  interests  are  con- 
cerned, and  from  the  standpoint  of  game  most  of  them  are  not  to  be 
seriously  considered. 

QUAIL. 

Quail  are  slowly  decreasing  throughout  most  of  the  State,  on  account 
of  the  great  number  of  hunters  and  the  development  of  facilities  for 
getting  into  all  sections  where  quail  are  found.  One  cause  of  the 
decrease  of  quail  has  been  attributed  to  in-breeding.  If  there  is  any 
merit  in  this  contention,  the  in-breeding  can  be  attributed  to  the  heavy 
shooting,  reducing  the  number  of  birds  to  below  the  safety  point.  In 
parts  of  the  State  there  is  urcent  need  of  a  close  season  for  a  number 
of  years  if  quail  are  to  be  kept  from  extermination.  There  is  some 
hope  that  the  experiments  in  domesticating  quail,  now  being  tried  by 
parties  throughout  the  State,  may  be  successful.  They  are  compara- 
tively easily  raised  and  would  command  a  very  good  price  from  bird 


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fanciers,  if  the  sale  were  permitted.  Mountain  quail  can  probably  be 
successfully  raised  above  elevations  of  2,500  feet.  Experiments  with 
them  below  that  level  have  for  the  most  part  resulted  in  failures. 
Mountain  quail  have  become  very  scarce  throughout  the  southern  end 
of  the  State,  and  in  the  coast  region  below  San  Francisco.  In  other 
parts  of  the  State,  although  sometimes  many  of  them  are  killed  by 
hard  winters,  they  are  about  holding  their  own. 

GROUSE. 

Ruffed  grouse  are  fairly  abundant  in  the  extreme  northwestern 
corner  of  the  State.  On  account  of  the  heavy  brush  and  timber  in 
which  the  birds  are  found,  they  are  not  hunted  extensively.  The  blue 
grouse  is  becoming  scarcer,  and  in  all  parts  of  the  State  where  the 
settlers  have  engaged  in  sheep  raising,  they  are  almost  extinct. 

The  sage  hen  is  found  only  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  State,  in  the  true 
sagebrush  country.  They  have  been  greatly  reduced  where  sheep  have 
been  ranged.  It  has  been  suggested  that  we  endeavor  to  introduce  the 
sage  hen  into  Imperial  County  and  other  places  of  low  elevation.  It  is 
probable  that  no  success  would  be  secured  from  any  experiments  of 
this  sort,  as  the  sage  hen  is  practically  never  found  below  an  elevation 
of  3,000  to  4,000  feet;  neither  is  it  found  out  of  the  true  sagebrush 
country.  The  sage  hen  is  our  largest  native  California  game  bird  and 
it  is  to  be  greatly  desired  that  it  be  kept  from  extermination. 

DOVES    AND    PIGEONS. 

Perhaps  the  most  difficult  bird  we  have  in  the  State  to  arrange  a 
proper  season  for  is  the  common  mourning  dove.  Breeding  records 
show  that  January  is  the  only  month  in  which  they  do  not  nest.  No 
•  bird  should  be  killed  during  the  nesting  season.  On  this  account  there 
are  many  sportsmen  who  advocate  the  removal  of  the  dove  from  the 
list  of  game  birds.  If  the  proper  season  cannot  be  arranged,  then  this 
is  what  should  be  done.  There  is  very  urgent  need  for  the  protection 
of  the  wild  (band-tail)  pigeon.  This  is  the  slowest  breeding  game  bird 
in  the  United  States.  One  egg  is  the  complete  set,  and  probably  only 
one  egg  is  laid  the  entire  year. 

INTRODUCED   GAME   BIRDS. 

Of  the  introduced  game  birds,  those  which  have  promised  the  best 
results  are  the  ring-necked  pheasants  and  wild  turkeys.  Pheasants 
have  been  liberated  in  various  parts  of  the  State  where  climatic  condi- 
tions and  topography  were  considered  adapted  to  them.  In  many  places 
very  excellent  results  have  been  obtained.  In  Humboldt  County,  the 
birds  have  increased  to  a  remarkable  extent.  They  have  also  increased 
in  parts  of  the  Santa  Clara  and  San  Joaquin  vallej^s.  It  will,  however, 
be  several  years  before  the  ring-necked  pheasant  can  be  considered 
abundant  enough  to  be  placed  on  the  open  list. 

Wild  turkeys  have  been  liberated  in  the  lower  Sierra  Nevada  region, 
where  they  are  reported  to  be  doing  exceedingly  well.  Other  plants 
iave  been  made  in  San  Diego,  San  Bernardino,  Monterey,  San  Benito, 


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Alameda,  Sonoma,  Shasta,  and  Humboldt  counties.  Eeports  that  have 
come  in  are  very  promising  and  we  believe  that  before  many  years  the 
wild  turkey  will  be  one  of  our  most  prized  game  birds.  A  report  of 
the  turkey  plantings  made  in  the  southern  Sierra,  by  Deputy  A.  D. 
Ferguson  of  Fresno,  will  be  found  in  the  Board's  1913  Game  Bulletin 
No.  1. 

Hungarian  partridges  have  been  given  a  good  trial  but  as  yet  no 
success  has  been  met  with.  There  have  been  very  few  places  where 
they  have  been  seen  in  recent  months.  It  is  possible  that  the  Hun- 
garian partridge  will  show  up  in  unexpected  places  and  that  we  may 
yet  have  this  bird  permanently  within  our  State. 

GAME    REFUGES. 

As  game  becomes  scarcer  and  hunters  work  farther  and  farther  into 
the  breeding  country,  it  will  become  more  and  more  essential  that 
certain  places  be  left  where  game  can  have  an  absolute  refuge.  From 
these  refuges  game  will  spread  to  the  surrounding  open  country  where 
the  hunters  may  have  a  chance  to  secure  a  fair  bag.  The  more  numerous 
these  refuges  can  be,  the  more  game  will  there  be  for  the  people  of  the 
State.  The  benefits  that  are  to  be  derived  from  a  protected  area  of  this 
sort  are  well  shown  in  San  Mateo  County.  In  that  county  there  are 
approximately  20,000  acres  of  Spring  Valley  Water  Company  land. 
On  this  land  there  is  practically  no  hunting.  The  deer  are  undisturbed 
here  at  all  times.  In  the  fall  of  the  year  the  bucks  begin  to  travel  and 
may  be  found  in  every  part  of  the  county.  During  the  present  year 
there  vrere  killed  about  154  bucks.  "Were  it  not  for  the  Spring  Valley 
preserved  land,  it  is  safe  to  say  that  not  one  tenth  of  this  number 
would  have  been  taken.  If  a  game  refuge  could  be  established  in  every 
county  in  the  State,  we  would  be  sure  of  a  perpetual  supply  of  game. 
There  are  many  places  that  could  be  easily  acquired  at  present,  but  as 
more  settlers  work  in  it  will  be  more  and  more  difficult,  so  that  the 
time  to  commence  is  now. 

GAME   REARING. 

In  this  connection  it  is  well  to  say  a  word  concerning  domestic  propa- 
gation of  game.  As  it  becomes  more  and  more  necessary  to  remove  all 
the  wild  game  from  the  markets,  the  public  demands  something  to  take 
its  place.  This  can  w^ell  be  supplied  from  that  raised  in  captivity.  We 
have  thousands  of  acres  of  land  in  this  State  that  is  excellent  range  for 
deer  and  upon  which  few  of  our  domesticated  animals  can  survive. 
This  land,  when  properly  fenced,  would  bring  in  a  steady  income  as 
deer  farms.  Venison  is  one  of  the  most  delicious  of  all  meats,  and  would 
command  a  high  price  at  all  times.  The  writer  is  informed  by  one  of  the 
leading  butchers  of  San  Francisco  that  he  could  secure  from  $1.00  to 
$1.50  per  pound  for  all  the  venison  he  could  obtain.  Both  deer  and  elk 
are  readily  domesticated.  A  law  allowing  the  sale  of  such  animals  would 
not  make  it  any  more  difficult  to  protect  the  wild  animals ;  on  the  other 
hand,  it  would  supply  the  demand  for  venison  and  would  remove  the 


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reason  for  violating  the  law  that  sometimes  exists  under  our  present 
system.  Not  only  can  big  game  be  domesticated,  but  quail,  wild  ducks 
and  other  game  birds  can  be  profitably  raised.  It  would  be  well  for  our 
State  to  adopt  a  law  something  similar  to  that  in  force  in  New  York, 
which  allows  the  raising  of  game  and  the  sale  of  all  wild  game  other  than 
that  native  to  America. 

CROP   DAMAGE   BY   GAME. 

There  are  parts  of  our  State  where  deer  and  small  game  do  consider- 
able damage  to  growing  crops.  At  present  there  is  no  provision  in  our 
law  that  allows  the  killing  of  such  animals,  nor  is  there  any  provision 
made  for  the  payment  of  damages  to  the  owner  of  the  crops.  It  would 
not  be  wise  to  allow  the  killing  of  game  animals  on  account  of  the  very 
numerous  parties  who  would  take  advantage  of  the  opportunity  to  kill 
game  at  all  seasons  of  the  year,  so  that  some  system  of  appraising  the 
damage  done  and  the  compensating  of  injured  parties  is  the  only 
solution. 

PREDATORY    ANIMALS. 

The  worst  game  destroyers  that  we  have  are  the  mountain  lions, 
coyotes  and  bobcats.  The  lion  works  chiefly  on  deer ;  the  coyote  and  cat 
on  fawns  and  small  game.  It  seems  impossible  to  devise  a  bounty  law 
through  which  the  State  would  not  be  robbed.  Almost  every  state  in 
the  Union  has  tried  it  at  different  times,  and  nothing  but  failures  have 
resulted.  All  these  species  of  "varmints"  do  damage,  not  only  to  the 
game  of  the  State,  but  to  the  stock  and  poultry  interests,  so  that  it 
would  not  be  fair  to  pay  a  bounty  out  of  the  game  protection  funds 
entirely.  If  any  sort  of  a  system  is  devised,  the  money  should  be  taken 
from  the  general  fund  of  the  State. 

A  sum  of  money  could  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of-  the  Fish  and 
Game  Commission,  out  of  which  a  number  of  expert  trappers  could 
be  paid — these  men  put  to  work  systematically  in  parts  of  the  State 
where  "varmints"  are  most  abundant.  The  wages  of  such  trappers 
need  not  be  great,  as  the  men  could  be  allowed  to  retain  the  pelts  taken. 
By  a  strenuous  campaign  it  would  be  possible  to  bring  the  "varmints" 
to  below  the  danger  point,  and  enough  game  and  stock  would  be  saved 
each  year  to  more  than  pay  for  the  money  expended. 


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OPERATION  OF  STATE  GAME  EARM  AT  HAYWARD. 

By  Wm.  N.  Dirks,   Superintendent. 

I  herewith  beg  to  submit  my  report  as  Superintendent  of  the  State 
Game  Farm,  for  the  season  of  1912. 

On  account  of  the  unsatisfactory  results  obtained  in  years  past,  when 
all  eggs  were  hatched  under  the  domestic  hen,  it  was  decided  to  learn 
if  more  satisfactory  results  could  not  be  obtained  by  the  use  of  incu- 
bators. A  great  deal  of  time  was  spent  in  reading  what  various  author- 
ities have  written  on  this  subject;  but  it  was  found  that  their  reports 


Pheasant  chicks  watering. 

were  more  or  less  contradictory,  and  that  only  in  a  general  way  could 
they  be  relied  upon.  It  was  then  determined  to  go  ahead  with  actual 
experiments. 

Various  makes  of  incubators  were  tried  and  all  were  found  to  give 
aliout  the  same  general  results.  Eggs  were  first  placed  in  the  incubator 
during  March.  Out  of  13  eggs  but  5  hatched — a  percentage  of  a  little 
over  38.  Of  the  next  lot  of  517  eggs,  367  hatched,  or  nearly  71  per  cent. 
Three  other  lots  were  tried,  with  poor  success — only  40  per  cent  hatched. 

It  was  then  decided  to  set  the  eggs  under  hens  for  a  number  of  davs. 


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before  transferring  them  to  the  incubators.  Of  the  first  lot  of  1,100  eggs 
&o  placed.  822  hatched — a  greater  percentage  than  had  been  secured  by 
the  use  of  the  incubator  alone.  Even  better  results  were  obtained  later ; 
out  of  a  lot  of  500  eggs,  411  were  hatched,  or  82  per  cent. 

It  is  a  general  complaint  among  pheasant  breeders  that  the  eggs  laid 
toward  the  end  of  the  season  are  weaker  in  fertility  than  those  laid 
earlier.  This  has  not  been  the  case  with  the  eggs  hatched  at  the,  Game 
Farm  during  the  past  season ;  for  of  the  last  123  laid,  100  were  fertile. 

It  is  planned,  for  the  next  year,  to  carry  on  experiments  in  coopera- 
tion with  the  State  University,  at  the  State  Farm  at  Davis,  to  see  if 


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Pheasant  chicks  hi  brooder  yard  at  Game  Farm. 

satisfactory  results  can  not  be  obtained  with  incubators  alone,  thus 
abandoning  the  use  of  hens. 

Although  the  trial  with  incubators  has  not  met  with  the  success  that 
was  hoped  for,  the  artificial  brooder,  on  the  other  hand,  has  given 
entire  satisfaction,  and  has  proved  to  be  far  ahead  of  any  natural  method 
for  the  raising  of  birds  in  large  numbers.  The  brooder-house  is  a  build- 
ing divided  into  five  compartments,  opening  into  screen  runways,  8  feet 
wide  by  90  feet  long.  At  one  end  of  the  building  a  furnace  is  set  in 
a  shallow  pit,  and  leading  from  it  a  terra  cotta  pipe  laid  in  a  trench 
runs  the  entire  length  of  the  building.     This  pipe  is  boxed  in.  and 


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covered  with  sand.    By  this  arrangement  a  very  even  temperature  can 
be  maintained  at  all  times. 

The  young  pheasants  are  removed  from  the  incubator  as  soon  as  dry. 
When  the  hatch  is  irregular,  the  older  chicks  may  be  taken  out  several 
hours  in  advance  of  the  smaller  ones,  without  harmful  results. 

Food  is  placed  in  reach  of  the  little  fellows  within  a  few  hours  after 
they  are  taken  from  the  incubator.  For  the  first  few  days  they  are 
given  a  boiled  custard,  made  in  the  proportion  of  six  eggs  to  a  pint  of 
milk;  after  a  day  or  two  a  small  amount  of  cornmeal  is  added  to  this 
custard,  and  later,  corn  grits  and  fresh  chopped  beef.    Hemp,  mustard. 


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Valley  quail  in  pen  at  Game  Farm. 

and  canary  seeds  are  also  scattered  in  the  pens,  and  after  the  chicks 
are  a  month  old,  wheat  and  charcoal  are  added.  Sand  and  green  food, 
such  as  lettuce,  kale,  and  clover,  are  placed  within  reach  of  the  birds  at 
all  times. 

After  five  weeks  in  the  brooder,  the  birds  are  strong  enough  to  be 
transferred  to  outside  pens,  and  almost  any  time  after  they  are  eight 
weeks  of  age  they  are  ready  for  liberation.  About  this  time,  there  is  a 
tendency  to  pick  each  other's  feathers,  with  the  result  that  as  soon  as 
blood  shows,  the  injured  bird  becomes  an  object  of  attack  by  all  the 
other  birds  in  the  pen,  and  in  most  cases  is  killed. 

In  securing  eggs,  the  breeding  birds  were  confined  in  small  pens — 


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one  male  to  five  hens,  except  in  two  pens,  where  eight  and  ten  hens 
respectively  were  confined.  From  both  of  these  pens  eggs  were  taken 
equaling  in  fertility  those  taken  from  the  pens  in  which  there  was  a 
lesser  number  of  female  birds.  Experiments  along  this  line  will  be 
carried  on  during  the  next  summer. 

In  raising  pheasants  it  is  very  important  to  guard  against  the  young 
birds'  getting  hold  of  any  of  the  burrs  of  the  burr  clover,  as  these  burrs 
lodge  in  the  throat  and  if  not  removed — an  operation  that  can  be  per- 
formed with  the  aid  of  a  small  pair  of  ph3'sician's  forceps — will  cause 
death. 

On  account  of  the  difficulty  of  securing  valley  quail  for  breeding  pur- 
poses, a  fair  test  was  not  made  with  these  birds,  though  it  is  believed 
that  they  can  be  easily  raised.  Of  the  few  eggs  secured,  90  per  cent 
of  those  that  were  fertile  hatched.  As  soon  as  hatched  the  chicks  were 
put  into  a  fireless  brooder  made  of  feather  dusters.  Ninety  were  raised 
out  of  181  hatched.  Extensive  experiments  in  the  raising  of  valley  quail 
will  be  carried  on  during  the  next  year. 

No  success  attended  experiments  with  the  Gambel  or  desert  quail.  All 
but  three  of  the  female  birds  died,  and  on  dissection  it  was  found  that 
although  eggs  had  developed,  owing  to  some  unknown  trouble,  probably 
due  to  a  change  in  climatic  or  food  conditions,  the  birds  were  unable  to 
lay  them.  The  male  birds  are  more  hard}^  and  practically  none  have 
died. 

No  attempt  was  made  to  raise  a  great  number  of  wild  turkeys,  as  the 
stock  at  the  farm  has  been  greatly  run  down.  These  birds  are  easy  to 
raise  and  should  new  breeding  stock  be  secured  next  year  a  great  many 
birds  could  be  raised  for  liberation. 


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PROPAGATION  AND  DISTRIBUTION  Of  PISH,  SEASON  1910-191 L 

SALMON  PROPAGATION. 

In  1910,  during  the  months  of  October,  November,  and  December, 
the  Fish  and  Game  Commission  received  as  usual  from  the  U.  S.  Bureau 
of  Fisheries,  a  grant  of  24,126,000  salmon  eggs  which  had  been 
spawned  at  the  Federal  hatcheries  at  Baird,  Battle  Creek,  and  Mill 
Creek.  These  eggs  were  received  and  cared  for  at  the  State  hatcheries 
at  Sisson,  Eel  River  and  Brookclale. 

Those  hatched  at  Sisson  were  liberated  in  the  tributaries  of  the  Sac- 
ramento, near  the  hatchery,  with  the  exception  of  2,215,000  which  were 
taken  down  to  Redding  and  liberated  in  the  Sacramento.  Those  hatched 
at  the  Eel  River  Hatchery  were  liberated  in  that  stream  within  a  few 
miles  of  the  sea,  and  those  hatched  at  Brookdale  were  planted  in  Scott 
Creek  and  the  San  Lorenzo  River. 

In  addition  to  the  above -grant,  2,109,000  of  silver  salmon  eggs  were 
obtained  through  the  joint  operations  of  the  Commission  and  the 
Bureau  of  Fisheries,  on  Klamath  River,  near  Klamathon.  The  eggs 
of  the  silver  salmon  were  shipped  to  Sisson  and  hatched  there,  with  the 
result  that  700,000  young  silver  salmon  were  planted  in  Klamath  River 
and  719,000  in  the  Sacramento  River.  This  was  the  first  effort  made 
in  this  State  to  increase  the  runs  of  the  silver  salmon;  heretofore 
hatchery  propagation  having  been  confined  to  the  Quinnat,  or  Sacra- 
mento salmon. 

The  silver  salmon,  commonly  called  "Coho"  in  the  north,  apparently 
does  not  enter  either  the  Sacramento  or  the  San  Joaquin  rivers.  There 
is  no  known  reason  why  the  fish  should  not  enter  these  streams;  they 
run  abundantly  in  the  Klamath  and  the  Smith  rivers,  in  Del  Norte 
County;  they  are  taken  in  considerable  numbers  in  Eel  River,  in  the 
fall;  and  they  frequent  many  other  of  the  coast  streams,  as  far  south 
as  Monterey  Bay.  Strange  as  it  may  appear,  the  presence  of  the 
silver  salmon  in  the  waters  of  this  State  remained  unnoticed  until  Dr. 
Gilbert,  Professor  of  Zoology,  at  Stanford  University,  a  few  seasons 
ago  called  attention  to  them.  Heretofore,  all  the  salmon  taken  in  our 
rivers  have  been  commercially  classed  as  Quinnat.  The  silver  salmon — 
though  a  true  Pacific  salmon — is  not  considered  as  valuable  a  fish  as  the 
Quinnat ;  they  are  smaller,  run  late  in  the  fall,  and  are  lacking  in  color 
and  in  oil.  Nevertheless  they  are  an  excellent  food  fish  when  taken  as 
they  enter  the  rivers  from  the  sea.  Though  the  silver  salmon  run 
neither  into  the  Sacramento  nor  the  San  Joaquin  rivers,  as  an  experi- 
ment the  Commission  planted  719,000  in  the  Sacramento,  at  Redding, 
with  the  hope  of  establishing  a  run  in  that  river  of  these  desirable 
fish.     The  outcome  of  the  experiment  will  be  watched  with  interest. 


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TROUT   EGG   COLLECTION   AND   DISTRIBUTION. 

During  the  winter  and  spring  of  1910-1911  the  Commission  obtained 

from  the  stock  fish  in  the  breeding  ponds  at  the  Sisson  hatchery,  the 

following  numbers  of  trout  eggs : 

Loch    Leven    trout 1,200,000 

Rainbow  trout 1,100,000 

Eastern    Brook    trout 750,000 

3,050,000 

In  addition  to  the  eggs  collected  from  the  stock  ponds  at  Sisson,  two 
spawning  stations  were  operated  on  the  Klamath  River,  for  the  collec- 
tion of  wild  rainbow  trout  eggs ;  these  stations  obtained  2,500,000  eggs, 
which  were  eyed  and  shipped  to  the  Sisson  Hatchery.  A  station  for 
the  collecting  of  steelhead  trout  spawn  was  also  operated  at  the  Snow 
Mountain  Power  Company's  dam,  in  Eel  River,  and  1,900,000  eggs 
were  collected  there,  300,000  of  which  were  paid  to  the  California 
Trout  Farm  Company,  which  holds  the  leases  for  operating  at  that 
dam.  Three  hundred  thousand  of  the  eggs  taken  at  the  latter  place 
were  shipped  to  the  State  hatchery  at  Grizzly  Bluff,  on  Eel  River,  in 
Humboldt  County,  where  they  were  hatched.  The  fry  from  this  lot 
were  distributed  in  that  county.  Seven  hundred  thousand  of  the  eggs 
T.-ere  shipped  to  the  Ukiah  Hatchery,  which  the  Commission  held  under 
lease.  This  lot  supplied  fish  for  Mendocino,  Sonoma,  Marin  and  Lake- 
counties.  The  balance  of  the  eggs  was  shipped  to  Sisson,  where  they 
were  hatched  and  planted  in  public  waters.  The  Commission  also 
operated  the  Scott  Creek  spawning  station,  owned  by  the  county  of 
Santa  Cruz,  upon  a  lease,  under  the  terms  of  which  the  county  hatchery 
at  Brookdale  was  furnished  500,000  eyed  steelhead  trout  eggs,  from  a 
total  of  1,300,000  steelhead  eggs  taken  at  this  station,  600,000  of  them 
being  shipped  to  Sisson,  to  be  used  in  stocking  public  streams. 

Owing  to  unfavorable  weather  conditions,  only  130,000  steelhead 
trout  eggs  were  collected  at  Grizzly  Bluff,  Humboldt  County,  but  the 
output  of  that  hatchery  was  increased  by  the  shipment  already  men- 
tioned. 

In  all,  5,800.000  steelhead  trout  eggs  were  collected  during  the  season. 

The  season  at  Tahoe  was  much  later  than  usual,  owing  to  the 
excessive  snow  fall  of  the  previous  winter.  Operations  were  begun 
there  in  May  and  3,000,000  Tahoe  trout  eggs  were  collected,  which  were 
hatched  at  the  Tahoe  and  Tallac  hatcheries  and  planted  in  the  lakes 
in  the  immediate  vicinity. 

The  hatchery  at  Wawona,  Yosemite  National  Park,  was  operated  as 
usual,  with  eggs  shipped  from  Lake  Tahoe. 

The  total  number  of  trout  eggs  collected  for  the  year  amounted  to 
11,980,000. 

(This  report  is  talven  from  a  bulletin  issued  by  the  Board  in  1911. — Secretary.) 


32  REPORT   OF   BOARD   OP   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

REPORT  OP  SUPERINTENDENT  Of  HATCHERIES. 

Honorable  Board  of  Fish  and  Game  Commissioners, 
for  the  State  of  California. 

Gentlemen:  I  take  pleasure  in  submitting  my  report  of  the  work 
done  at  the  Sisson  Hatchery  and  other  State  hatcheries  during  the 
season  from  December  1,  1911,  to  November  1,  1912;  and  also  of  my 
work  as  Superintendent  of  Fish  Culture  and  Distribution.  I  have 
made  monthly  reports  of  all  this  work,  which  covered  in  a  compre- 
hensive way  everything  that  was  being  done  under  my  supervision. 
I  shall,  therefore,  endeavor  to  cover  in  this  report  only  such  matters 
as  will  be  of  interest  to  the  public  or  those  especially  interested,  but 
perhaps  less  informed  than  your  honorable  Board. 

The  work  in  general  is  in  a  most  satisfactory  and  prosperous  condi- 
tion, due  in  a  very  great  measure  to  the  substantial  support  and  cooper- 
ation I  have  received  from  the  Board  of  Commissioners.  I  have  been 
in  the  employ  of  the  Commission  for  almost  thirty  years,  and  this  is 
the  first  time  during  that  period  that  I  have  received  the  hearty 
cooperation  of  the  entire  Board.  I  attribute  in  no  small  measure  the 
success  of  the  past  season  to  this  source,  and  I  am  deeply  grateful 
for  all  the  encouragement  and  material  assistance  thus  given. 

THE  SISSON  HATCHERY. 

The  excellent  condition  of  the  buildings  and  surroundings  at  the 
Sisson  Hatchery  enabled  us  to  escape  the  usual  heavy  expense  of  the 
past  few  years  of  the  building  of  new  structures.  The  fences  had  a 
new  coat  of  paint,  as  did  also  the  exterior  of  hatchery  "A,"  and  all 
of  the  troughs  in  each  hatchery  were  newly  painted.  A  few  new 
flumes  have  been  built,  and  new  gravel  bottoms  have  been  put  in  some 
of  the  ponds.  A  great  deal  of  ugly  brush  has  been  removed,  thus 
putting  the  ponds  in  a  neater  looking,  as  well  as  more  sanitary  con- 
dition. The  roofs  of  all  the  buildings  were  repaired  and  a  new  motor 
was  installed  in  the  feed  house. 

At  Bogus,  Shovel  and  Camp  creeks,  small  egg  collecting  stations 
under  the  supervision  of  this  hatchery,  the  buildings,  traps  and  screens 
were  given  a  thorough  overhauling  and  at  Bogus  creek  an  addition 
was  built  to  the  dwelling  occupied  by  the  men  during  the  egg  collect- 
ing season, 

THE  DISTRIBUTION   CAR. 

The  distribution  car  also  came  in  for  its  share  of  improvements. 
The  boiler  and  air  pumps  especially  were  in  poor  condition  and  in 
April  the  car  was  sent  to  the  Sacramento  car  shops  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad.  The  aerating  system  was  improved  by  doubling  the 
number  of  aerating  plugs  in  each  unit,  thus  insuring  an  abundance 
of  oxygen  in  each  can.  The  fish  have  carried  better  this  season  than 
ever  before.  Reports  received  from  nearly  all  of  the  applicants  made 
mention  of  the  excellent  condition  of  the  fry  at  the  time  of  delivery. 


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CREATION  OF  NEW  OFFICE. 

In  November,  1911,  the  Commission  saw  fit  to  create  the  new  office 
of  Fish  Culture  and  Distribution,  and  I  was  assigned  to  this  new 
division  of  the  w^ork.  I  entered  upon  my  new  duties  with  great 
interest  and  enthusiasm.  The  work  at  first  was  somewhat  heavy;  but 
I  was  able  with  the  excellent  assistance  given  me,  to  effect  a  suc- 
cessful organization  of  this  new  department.  The  duties  of  this  work 
required  me  to  be  away  so  much  that  the  Commission  very  kindly 
furnished  me  with  the  valuable  assistance  of  R.  W.  Requa  who  in 
April  was  made  assistant  superintendent  of  the  Sisson  Hatchery.  He 
has  verj^  ably  conducted  the  work  of  this  station  during  my  long  occa- 
sions of  absence  while  I  was  away  on  tours  of  inspection  into  every 
section  of  the  State. 


THE    HATCHING    SEASON    AT    SISSON    HATCHERY. 

The  season  for  hatching  here  and  at  the  substations  has  been  unusu- 
ally successful,  and  I  submit  herewith  a  tabulated  list  of  the  varieties 
and  numbers  of  trout  hatched : 

Loch  Leven  Tbout. 

Eggs    taken 1,500,000 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 2OG,.50O 

Left  for  distribution 1,293,500 

Eastern  Brook  Trout. 

Eggs  talien   1,000,000 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 94,000 

Left  for  distribution 900,000 

Rainbow  Trout. 

Eggs  taken  from  hatcliery  pond  fish 1,087,000 

Loss  in   eyeing  and  hatching 97,830 

Left  for  distribution 989,170 

Eggs  taken  Bogus  Creek   Station 2,455,400 

Loss   in   eyeing   and   hatching 280,000 

Left  for  distribution 2.17.").4O0 

Eggs  taken  Camp  Creek  Station 2,181,600 

Eggs  shipped  to  Wawona  Hatchery 225,000 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 262,700 

Left  for  distribution 1     1,093.000 

Eggs   taken    Shovel   Creek    Station 1,370,000 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 177,800 

Fry   planted   in    Shovel   Creek 100,000 

Left  for  distribution 1,092,200 

Total 5,950,670 

Steelhead  Trout. 

Eggs  received  from  Brookdale 416,600 

Loss  in  hatching 55,600 

Left  for  distribution 361,000 

3—2956 


34  REPORT   OP   BOARD   OP   PISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

Large  Lake  Trout — {Salmo  m.  tahoensis). 

Eggs  received  from  Tahoe 92,922 

Loss  in  hatching 8.922 

Left    for   distribution 84,000 

Black-spotted  Trout — {Salmo  m.  henshawii). 

Eggs  received  from  Tahoe 370,104 

Loss  in  hatching 51.664 

Left  for  distribution 318,500 

SALMON. 

The  salmon  output,  while  not  so  heavy  as  in  several  previous  seasons 
brought  many  pleasing  results.  Several  experiments  have  been  made 
and  some  50,000  fish  were  marked  in  endeavors  to  find  the  most  favor- 
able points  for  the  distribution  of  these  fish.  After  years  of  investi- 
gation I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  only  successful  way  to  rear  salmon 
is  to  hold  them  from  five  to  seven  months  and  then  release  them  in 
our  rivers  before  the  flood  season.  At  this  age  they  are  able  to  escape 
their  enemies  and  take  care  of  themselves  until  they  have  reached  the 
end  of  their  long  journey  to  the  sea.  By  releasing  them  early,  when 
the  temperature  in  the  streams  first  lowers,  and  before  the  flood  season, 
they  depart  for  their  natural  waters  under  most  auspicious  circum- 
stances, and  with  no  danger  of  being  carried  by  the  floods  into  the 
overflow  basins  and  left  later  to  perish  in  the  tule  basins  when  the 
flood  waters  have  receded. 

The  Federal  Bureau  is  making  arrangements  to  take  the  eggs  of  the 
Silver  salmon  at  Klamathon  this  year.  They  will  be  hatched  at  the 
Sisson  hatchery. 

The  output  of  salmon  follows : 

Eggs  taken  at  Battle  Creek  Station  and  hatched  at  Sisson 5,890,000 

Loss    105,145 

Left  for  distribution .5,784,855 

Hatched  at  Sacramento  Experimental  Station 450,000 

Loss  in  shipping  and  hatching 92,300 

Left  for  distribution 357,700 

Following  is  a  list  of  trout  and  grayling  in  the  ponds  at  Sisson  Sta- 
tion, November  1,  1912 : 

Locii  Leven. 

Adult   3,402 

Two  year  old 3,572 

One   year   old 10.500 

Fry     10.000 

27.474 

Eastern  Brook. 

Adult    4,078 

Two    year    old 4,490 

One    year   old 5,879 

Frv     17.500 

■ ■      31,947 

Golden. 
Yearlings     250 

Grayling. 
Fry     4,000 

Hybrid  Golden-Rainbow. 
Adult   , 57 


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Rainbow. 

Adult    3,310 

One   year  old 2,000 

Fry    25,000 

Fry  in  Klink  Lake 50,000 

Fry  in  Sisson  Lake 75,000 

155,310 

Total    219,038 

TAHOE   HATCHERIES. 

E.  W.  Hunt  has  successfully  managed  the  hatcheries  about  Lake 
Tahoe  for  many  seasons.  He  proceeded  to  the  lake  a  little  earlier  than 
usual  this  year  so  as  to  be  in  readiness  to  take  as  many  eggs  as  could 
pos.sibly  be  accommodated  at  the  Tahoe  Hatcheries. 

There  has  been  a  very  large  trout  that  entered  some  of  the  tributary 
streams  of  Tahoe  to  spawn.  I  believe  these  to  be  a  different  variety, 
if  not  a  different  species  from  the  common  black-spotted  trout  {Sahno 
m.  henshawii)  of  Lake  Tahoe.  These  large  fish  have  never  been  artifi- 
cially propagated,  owing  to  the  lateness  of  the  season  when  spawning 
usually  begins.  It  was  my  desire  to  procure  a  few  thousand  of  these 
eggs  and  place  the  fry  hatched  from  them  in  different  waters  to  see  if 
they  attain  the  size  and  peculiar  markings  after  they  have  come  to 
maturity  under  different  conditions  that  are  attained  in  their  native 
waters.    These  fish  have  been  classified  as  the  Salmo  tahoensis. 

Mr.  Hunt  succeeded  in  getting  over  half  a  million  of  their  eggs.  Of 
these  92,922  were  shipped  to  Sisson  and  hatched,  and  have  since  been 
distributed  to  various  waters.  The  remaining  eggs  at  the  Tahoe  Hatch- 
eries were  hatched  and  distributed  to  various  tributary  streams  of 
Lake  Tahoe.  I  am  waiting  with  a  great  deal  of  interest  the  results  of 
the  artificial  hatching  of  these  large  trout  and  also  the  effects  of  trans- 
planting them  to  foreign  waters. 

Another  important  feature  in  connection  with  the  Tahoe  work  was 
the  exchange  of  50,000  rainbow  trout  eggs  to  the  Verdi  Hatcherj^  in 
return  for  as  many  Eastern  brook  eggs.  The  Eastern  brook  eggs  were 
hatched  and  at  the  age  of  eight  months  were  in  fine  condition  and 
were  distributed.  The  rainbow  eggs  will  be  delivered  to  the  Verdi 
Hatchery  next  spring. 

After  a  very  busy  and  successful  season  the  Tahoe  Hatchery  closed 
on  October  7th  and  Mr.  Hunt,  after  a  short  vacation,  proceeded  to 
Sisson.     The  statistical  report  follows : 

Black-spotted  trout  eggs  taken 3,010.622 

Large  lake  trout  eggs  taken 542,701 

Total  eggs  taken 4,158,383 

Eggs  shipped  to  Sisson  and  Wawona 585,086 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 482,439 

1,067,525 

Fry  planted  as  per  distribution  reports : 

From  Tallac 1,617,072 

From  Tahoe 993,137 

From   Glen   Alpine 475,649 

3,085,858 

Total 4,1531,383 


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BROOKDALE  HATCHERY. 

The  Brookdale  Hatchery,  which  has  hitherto  been  operated  by  Santa 
Cruz  County,  has  recently  been  acquired  by  the  State  through  a  lease. 
Owing  to  a  lack  of  funds  for  maintaining  this  hatchery,  Santa  Cruz 
County  entered  into  an  agreement  with  the  State,  turning  over  the  sta- 
tion, in  return  for  the  delivery  to  that  county  annually  of  500,000  steel- 
head  trout  eggs. 

Mr.  F.  A.  Shebley  has  managed  this  hatchery  since  its  institution 
and  has  continued  as  its  superintendent  since  it  has  been  acquired  by 
the  State.  The  eggs  which  are  hatched  at  Brookdale  are  taken  mainly 
from  Scott  Creek.  An  insight  into  the  history  of  this  station  is  neces- 
sary, therefore,  in  order  to  fully  understand  the  importance  of  what 
has  been  accomplished  there. 

Concrete  dams  w^ere  first  placed  in  the  creek  in  the  fall  of  1907  by 
Santa  Cruz  County  at  a  cost  of  $650.00.  The  following  spring  725,000 
eggs  were  taken.  To  make  it  a  well  equipped  egg-collecting  station 
considerable  more  work  was  needed;  but  an  insurance  of  enough  eggs 
in  future  had  to  be  guaranteed  in  order  to  justify  the  cost.  The  only 
wa}^  to  obtain  this  assurance  was  to  protect  the  small  trout  in  a  portion 
of  the  stream  and  lagoon  from  hook  and  line  fishermen.  Leases  were 
therefore  secured  from  owners  of  land  on  that  portion  of  the  lagoon 
and  stream,  whereby  four  miles  of  stream  was  acquired  and  closed  to 
fishermen.  Here  the  fish  are  protected  until  maturity.  Results  have 
shown  that  by  protecting  that  portion  of  the  stream  an  increase  of 
two  million  eggs  was  secured  this  season  over  the  first  season  and  with 
no  greater  cost  of  operation. 

In  addition  to  the  importance  to  which  he  has  elevated  this  plant  as 
an  egg  collecting  station.  Mr.  F.  A.  Shebley  deserves  great  credit  for 
the  study  and  experiments  he  has  pursued  regarding  fish  life;  they 
are  instructive  and  interesting  and  represent  a  vast  amount  of  well 
spent  time  and  thought. 

The  egg-collecting  station  at  Scott  Creek  was  enlarged  so  as  to  take 
an  extra  number  of  steelhead  eggs.  Shipments  of  these  eggs  were 
inade  from  Brookdale  to  the  Ukiah  Hatchery,  to  the  Eel  River  Hatchery 
for  distribution  in  Eel  and  Mad  rivers  and  other  nearby  streams.  Ship- 
ments were  also  made  to  Sisson  for  distribution  by  car  to  Southern 
California  waters.  The  remainder  were  kept  at  Brookdale  for  dis- 
tribution to  points  in  Santa  Cruz  County  streams. 

Further  improvements  will  be  necessary  to  increase  the  take  of  eggs 

this  coming  spring  at  Scott  creek.     The  report  of  the  season's  work 

at  Brookdale  follows: 

Total  number  eggs  collected  at  Swanton,  hatched  at  Brookdale 2,709,300 

Loss 603,200 

Left    for    distribution 2,106,100 

Total  number  of  eggs  shipped  to  Ukiah  Hatchery 470,000 

Total  number  of  eggs  shipped  to  Price  Creek  Hatchery 400,000 

Total  number  of  eggs  shipped  to  Sisson  Hatchery 416,600 

Two  small  lots  to  Sacramento  Experimental  Station 16,000 

Fry   planted    Scott   Creek 50,000 

Fry  planted  Santa  Cruz  County 753,500 

Total    2,106,100 


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PRICE   CREEK   HATCHERY. 

Mr.  W.  0.  Fassett  has  continued  in  charge  of  the  work  at  this  impor- 
tant station  and  has  directed  it  in  an  orderly,  commendable  manner ;  but 
a  series  of  accidents  have  hampered  the  work  here  to  a  great  extent. 

In  April  a  landslide  damaged  the  flumes  so  much  that  the  hatchery 
had  to  close.  The  eggs  and  embryo  fish  in  the  hatchery  were  planted 
in  Price  Creek.  Several  hundred  dollars  will  be  necessary  to  repair 
the  water  supply  so  badly  damaged  by  the  landslide. 

It  may  be  well  to  note  that  100,000  salmon  fry  were  liberated  in  Mad 
River  this  season.  The  people  in  this  section  were  greatly  pleased, 
claiming  to  have  been  entirely  overlooked  by  former  commissions.  In 
response  to  a  petition  of  the  people  of  Areata,  a  thorough  study  is  being 
made  of  the  conditions  in  Mad  River  relative  to  the  propagation  and 
distribution  of  salmon  fry  in  that  section.  I  believe  that  enough  eggs 
can  be  taken  to  stock  Eel  River  and  Mad  River,  without  planting  there 
the  eggs  of  the  Sacramento  River. 

The  report  of  the  steelhead  trout  eggs  taken  and  the  early  distribution 

on  account  of  the  landslide  follows : 

Eggs  taken   218,000 

Eggs  received  from  Brookdale  Hatchery 400,000 

Total 618,000 

Loss  in  eyeing  and  hatching 38,000 

580,000 
Planted  in  Price  creek  : 

Embryos    4.54,000 

Eyed  eggs 80,000 

Uneyed  eggs  46,000 

Total  planted 580,000 

Salmon  eggs  received  from  Burean  of  Fisheries 3.240,000 

Loss    36,340 

Left    for   distribution 3,203,660 

Distributed  in  Mad  River 100,000 

Distributed  in  Eel  River 3,103,660 

Total    3.203,660 

UKIAH   HATCHERY. 

As  in  several  previous  years,  the  work  at  Ukiah  has  been  very  capably 
handled  by  Mr.  A.  V.  La  Motte.  The  hatchery  was  repaired  early 
in  the  season,  and  a  motor  was  installed  for  a  pumping  plant,  to  insure 
a  supply  of  water  in  case  the  supply  in  the  creek  should  fail.  The 
expense  of  purchasing  the  pump  and  wire  for  the  power  line  transmit- 
ting the  current  to  the  motor  was  paid  for  by  subscription  by  the 
citizens  of  Ukiah.  The  fish  have  suffered  at  this  hatchery  in  former 
years  on  account  of  the  failure  of  the  water  supply.  The  present  season, 
however,  has  brought  with  it  an  ample  supply  of  water,  and  the  station 
has  operated  successfully  for  four  months. 


38  REPORT    OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

The  work  at  this  station,  while  not  so  extensive  as  at  some  of  the 
other  stations,  is  a  credit  to  the  Commission ;  Mr.  La  Motte  deserves 
unstinted  praise  for  the  businesslike  and  creditable  manner  in  which  he 
has  conducted  the  work  and  made  his  reports.  The  residents  of  this 
section  are  also  entitled  to  the  gratitude  of  the  Commission  for  their 
generous  cooperation  and  support. 

The  egg-collecting  station  on  Eel  River,  Mendocino  County,  was  not 
opened  this  season.  The  Marin  County  Trout  Farm  demanded  600,000 
eggs  for  permitting  the  Commission  to  operate  at  the  Snow  Mountain 
Power  Company  dam,  on  which  they  hold  a  lease.  The  Commission 
considered  the  demand  unjust  and  that  granting  it  would  be  favoring 
private  interests,  so  enough  eggs  were  shipped  to  Ukiah  from  Brookdale 
to  supply  the  streams  in  that  section. 

The  following  briefly  sums  up  the  output  of  this  station : 

Steelhead  eggs  shipped  to  Ukiah  from  Brookdale  Hatchery 470,000 

Loss  of  eggs  and  fry [ 36,542 

Left  for  distribution 433,458 


WAWONA  HATCHERY. 

The  work  at  the  Wawona  Hatchery,  superintended  by  Mr.  F.  C. 
Boyce,  has  been  entirely  satisfactory,  and  like  that  at  all  the  other 
hatcheries,  the  season  has  been  a  busy  one. 

The  eggs  shipped  to  this  station  from  the  Sisson  and  Tahoe  hatcheries 
hatched  in  good  condition,  and  the  fry  were  vigorous  and  healthy. 
Through  the  courtesy  of  Major  W.  H.  Forsyth,  superintendent  of  the 
Yosemite  National  Park,  the  fish  were  given  a  wide  distribution  through 
the  Yosemite  National  Park  and  adjacent  country  during  the  month  of 
July.  The  greater  portion  were  distributed  by  pack  animals  in  the 
lakes  and  streams  of  the  Yosemite  region. 

The  following  report  sums  up  the  season's  work  at  the  Wawona 

Hatchery : 

Rainbow  eggs  shipped  from  Sisson  to  Wawona 225,000 

Loss  in  hatching  and  rearing 8,994 


Left  for  distribution 216,006 

Black-spotted  trout  eggs  shipped  from  Tahoe  to  Wawona 122,000 

T<oss  in  hatching  and  rearing 7,534 

Left  for  distribution 114,466 

330,472 
Rainbow  trout  fry  distributed 216.006 

Black-spotted  trout  fry  distributed___ 114,466 

Total   distributed   330,472 


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THE  SACRAMENTO  EXPERIMENTAL  STATION. 

During  the  fall  of  1911  the  Commission  decided  to  carry  on  a  series 
of  experiments  to  determine  whether  the  eggs  of  the  quinnat  salmon 
could  be  successfully  hatched  and  the  fry  reared  near  the  city  of  Sac- 
ramento. It  was  thought  that  if  water  could  be  found  in  which  the 
eggs  could  be  hatched  without  causing  injury  to  the  eggs  and  embryos, 
that  a  greater  percentage  of  the  fry  would  safely  reach  the  ocean,  than 
would  be  the  case  if  they  were  all  liberated  in  the  upper  reaches  of  the 
river  near  the  natural  spawning  grounds.  It  was  maintained  that 
under  the  old  system  of  liberating  the  fry  as  soon  as  they  were  able 
to  swim,  that  a  great  many  of  them  were  devoured  by  predatory  fishes, 
and  others  were  carried  into  the  overflow  basins  during  years  of  flood. 

Accordingly,  the  station  at  Sacramento  was  established.  Mr.  F.  A. 
Shebley  conducted  the  work  in  addition  to  his  duties  as  superintendent 
of  the  Brookdale  Hatcherj".  The  experiments  as  carried  on  at  Sacra- 
mento are  of  vital  importance  to  the  salmon  industry.  After  experi- 
menting with  the  water  from  a  number  of  wells,  a  flow  of  water  was 
found  on  the  Sherliurn  tract  that  appeared  to  give  average  results  in 
hatching.  The  fish  hatched  at  this  station  were  all  released  in  the  Sac- 
ramento River.  Of  these,  50,000  were  marked.  A  close  watch  will  be 
kept  for  the  return  of  these  fish  when  they  return  at  maturity,  to  find 
out  if  a  greater  percentage  return  as  mature  salmon  than  those  that  are 
released  on  the  upper  reaches  of  the  Sacramento  River. 

Nearly  all  of  the  fry  that  were  liberated  in  the  Sacramento  River 
were  floated  in  a  screen  cage  by  boat  into  the  middle  of  the  stream  and 
there  released.  Mr.  N.  B.  Scofield,  however,  took  500  in  a  floating  box 
down  the  river,  where  they  were  held  and  fed  for  several  weeks  in 
brackish  and  salt  water.  They  were  not  affected  by  the  sudden  change 
from  fresh  to  brackish  and  then  to  the  saline  waters  of  the  straits  near 
the  outlet  of  the  liay.  Mr.  Scofield,  who  conducted  the  experiment, 
will  furnish  a  report  of  the  minor  details  of  this  work. 

In  order  to  accurately  determine  whether  better  results  are  obtained 
by  hatching  and  releasing  the  fry  nearer  tidewater  than  are  obtained 
under  the  old  system,  it  will  be  necessary  to  operate  this  station  for  a 
number  of  years.  A  certain  number  of  fry  will  be  marked  each  year 
until  conclusive  results  are  obtained. 

In  the  course  of  the  experiments  above  mentioned  and  in  the  search 
for  suitable  water  for  hatching  purposes,  two  wells  were  bored,  and  the 
water  from  other  wells  was  also  analysed  and  experimented  with.  The 
batteries  or  series  of  troughs  used  in  these  experiments  were  set  up  in 
the  open  near  the  wells  and  the  pumping  plants  were  installed  tem- 
porarily. The  best  results  were  obtained  from  the  well  on  the  Sherburn 
tract.  Here  a  battery  of  40  troughs  was  set  up  on  the  levee,  and  the 
pumping  plant  installed  in  a  small  building  of  corrugated  iron.  As  the 
work  continues  during  the  coming  season  it  will  be  necessary  that  a  tent 
or  temporary  building  be  erected  over  the  hatching  battery,  and  I 
respectfully  recommend  that  these  few  improvements  be  made  in  order 


40        -         REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

that  the  employees  may  be  protected  from  the  inclemencies  of  the 
weather.  If  the  experiments  of  the  coming  seasons  prove  successful, 
then  a  permanent  station  should  be  erected  and  the  work  carried  on 
extensively.    A  report  of  the  eggs  hatched  and  released  follows : 

Total  numbei*  of  eggs  received  from  U.  S.  Commission,  Baird,  Battle  Creek 

and    Mill   Creek 1,768,000 

October  9 — First  experiment,  eggs  placed  in  experimental  trough, 

Carmichael  land  ;  water  being  unfit.     Loss 50,000 

October  21 — -Second  experiment.  Ohji  well,  10,000  eyed  eggs, 
11,000  green  eggs.  Both  lots  hatched  in  good  condition,  mak- 
ing fine  growth  after  feeding 21,000 

January  6 — Third  experiment.     Levee  well,  water  unfit.     Poor 

results    200,000 

January   10 — Fourth   experiment.     Used   river  water   by  pump. 

No  results 50,000 

January  26 — Reshipped  to  Sisson 4.50,000 

January  26 — Loss  in  hatching  and  rearing  balance  of  eggs  with 

water  taken  from  Ohji  well 97,000 

January  26 — Fry  liberated  in  Sacramento  River 900,000 

1,768,000 

MILL  CREEK, 

This  station  is  the  property  of  the  Federal  Bureau,  but  it  was  oper- 
ated this  year  by  the  California  Commission.  Heretofore,  the  salmon 
eggs  have  been  hatched  largely  at  Sisson,  and  as  the  prospects  were 
unusually  promising  for  the  season  passed,  it  was  feared  the  capacity 
of  the  Sisson  Hatchery  would  be  overtaxed.  Accordingly,  arrangements 
were  made  with  the  Federal  Bureau  whereby  the  State  operated  the  Mill 
Creek  Station.  This  station  has  many  fine  features,  and  is  ideally 
situated  for  the  hatching  of  salmon  fry.  Below  the  mill  there  is  a  mill- 
race  25  x  30  and  containing  from  3,000  to  5,000  miners '  inches  of  water. 
It  is  covered  with  medium-sized  boulders  and  gravel,  and  here  were 
distributed  the  surplus  embryos  and  later  the  fry.  It  has  proved  to  be 
a  remarkably  fine  nursery. 

Geo.  L.  Hopper  has  been  in  charge  of  the  work  at  this  station,  and  he 

has  submitted  the  following  report  of  the  season 's  work : 

Eggs  turned  over  to  the  State 9,364,550 

Loss    40,660 

9,323,890 
Eggs  shipped  to  Sacramento 607,000 

Fry  hatched  at  Mill  Creek  Station 8,716,890 

Fry  lost 53,660 

Fry  planted  at  Mill  Creek S.663,230 

In  addition,  there  were  11,000  green  eggs  delivered  to  Mr.  Hunt  before 
the  State  assumed  charge  of  the  operations  here.  There  were  also 
150,000  eggs  sent  to  Sacramento  from  Baird. 


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THE  DISTRIBUTION  SEASON. 

The  season  of  distribution  has  been  a  long  one.  The  first  shipments 
■were  of  salmon  fry  and  were  made  in  March  (1912).  Since  then  the 
car  and  its  crew  under  the  management  of  F.  McCrea,  have  been  kept 
constantly  on  the  move,  with  the  exception  of  ten  days  in  April,  w^hen 
the  car  was  in  the  shops. 

In  August  the  water  in  the  coast  streams  and  southern  California 
became  so  extremely  low  that  trout  distribution  had  to  be  discontinued 
for  a  time.  The  car  crew  then  proceeded  to  collect  and  distribute  black 
bass.  This  work  was  not  altogether  easy,  but  they  managed  to  gather 
1.750  of  these  fish.  They  were  planted  mostly  in  interior  waters  south 
of  San  Francisco,  but  there  was  one  shipment  each  to  Placer,  Yolo,  and 
Calaveras  counties. 

I  have  submitted  to  the  Commission  for  publication,  a  complete  tabu- 
lated list  of  all  the  fish  distributed  from  Sisson  Hatchery  and  the  other 
hatcheries,  and  it  will  appear  elsewhere  in  the  biennial  report.  This  I 
deem  most  important,  because  the  people  are  not  only  interested  in 
knowing  how  many  fish  are  propagated  and  distributed,  but  they  also 
want  to  know  where  they  are  planted.  The  list  will  satisfy  all  of  these 
interested  persons  and  will  prove  that  the  Commission  is  endeavoring  to 
scatter  its  benefits  ecpially  amongst  all  sections  of  the  State. 

In  a  very  general  way  this  report  covers  the  work  at  Sisson  Hatchery 
and  its  auxiliary  stations. 

SCREENS  AND  LADDERS. 

Acting  under  the  instructions  of  your  honorable  Board,  I  began  early 
in  Ma}',  work  on  the  fish  "ladder"  and  screen  investigation  and  the 
work  of  having  neces-ary  structures  and  appliances  installed. 

On  my  recommendation  you  appointed  A.  E.  Doney  as  my  assistant  in 
the  "ladder"  and  screen  investigation.  Mr.  Doney  has  had  several 
years  of  experience  in  the  Klamath  River  work  besides  his  duties  as 
deputy  in  the  northern  part  of  the  State.  He  has  made  a  special  study 
of  the  ' '  ladder ' '  work  and  has  proven  to  be  a  valuable  assistant. 

We  have  visited  most  of  the  corporations,  mill  owners,  irrigation  and 
land  companies  and  other  water  users,  from  Siskiyou  to  San  Diego,  in 
every  county  but  two,  and  will  have  visited  these  two  before  this  report 
is  issued.  On  most  occasions  I  have  found  them  courteous  and  willing 
to  install  whatever  screens  or  ladders  were  necessary. 

There  has  been  a  screen  law  in  California  nearly  twenty  years  and  this 
is  the  first  Commission  that  has  insisted  on  its  enforcement.  The  work  in 
this  line  therefore  has  necessarily  been  slow.  What  has  been  neglected 
and  lying  dormant  for  so  long  can  not  be  corrected  in  a  month  or  even 
in  a  year. 

It  has  been  claimed  by  many  who  are  familiar  with  the  screen  ques- 
tion, that  the  use  of  screens  with  meshes  small  enough  to  exclude  trout 
fry  would,  in  many  cases,  practically  shut  off  all  the  water  from  the 


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ditch  or  canal  in  which  fry  were  placed.  After  a  careful  study  of 
hundreds  of  ditches  and  canals  and  the  matter  that  is  carried  into  them, 
in  the  form  of  alg'se,  leaves  and  grasses,  and  floating  material  generally. 
I  am  firmly  convinced  that  the  parallel  bar  screens  can  he  placed  in  all 
the  ditches  and  canals  without  working  a  hardship  or  inconvenience  on 


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any  person  or  company.  When  we  first  began  this  work  we  recom- 
mended the  parallel  bar  screen  and  any  of  the  rotary  screens  that  the 
ditch  o\^^lers  desired  to  put  in,  so  long  as  the  meshes  met  the  regulations 
of  one  quarter  of  an  inch.     Since  then  several  engineers  have  planned 


REPORT    OF    BOARD    OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS.  43 

<iutomatic'  self-eleaiiiug  parallel  bar  screens  that  can  be  installed  suc- 
cessfully in  any  of  the  canals  no  matter  how  wide  or  deep  they  are. 

Practical  experiments  have  been  made  by  Superintendent  Requa  at  the 
Sisson  Hatchery  and  he  now  has  in  operation  there,  two  working  models 
of  self-cleaning  rotary  screens.  He  himself  is  the  inventor  of  one,  and 
he  is  entitled  to  the  credit  of  making  the  best  rotary  screen  that  has 
■ever  been  devised.  Its  most  important  feature  is  its  absolute  simplicity 
and  inexpensiveness.  It  is  so  constructed  that  any  farmer  could  make 
one  in  his  work  shop  in  half  a  day.  I  have  neither  the  time  nor  the 
space  to  take  up  more  fully  the  minute  details  of  this  screen.  It  is  my 
intention  to  circulate  information  on  this  subject  by  separate  folders. 

This  screen  is  designed  for  use  in  ii-rigating  ditches,  canals,  or  pipes 
taking  water  from  streams,  reservoirs,  or  other  bodies  of  water. 

The  purpose  of  this  invention  is  to  provide  a  fish  screen  of  simple  con- 
struction, •  equipped  with  an  automatic  regulating  device  which  will 
luaintain  a  mean  water  level  on  the  face  of  the  screen  under  variable 
heads  of  water.  The  driving  apparatus,  including  a  crank  shaft,  pawl 
and  racliet  members,  is  designed  for  construction  without  special  tools 
i.'nd  at  a  nominal  cost. 

It  may  be  well  to  add  here  that  the  regulation  insisted  upon  requires 
that  streams  inhabited  by  trout,  salmon,  shad,  and  striped  bass  require 
screens  with  openings  not  greater  than  one  fourth  of  an  inch.  In 
streams  frequented  by  black  bass,  Sacramento  perch  and  California 
' '  pike, ' '  and  where  there  are  no  salmon,  shad,  trout,  or  striped  bass  to 
protect,  an  opening  of  one  half  an  inch  square  is  permissible. 

I  have  found  that  the  reluctance  in  screening  is  more  with  the  engin- 
eers, superintendents  or  water  masters,  than  the  directors  or  real  owners 
in  land  companies.  Notice  has  been  served  to  all  water  users  that  the 
law  will  be  enforced.  When  a  reasonable  length  of  time  has  elapsed  and 
no  intention  is  shown  to  comply  with  the  law,  I  shall  request  your  hon- 
orable Board  to  instruct  the  Commission's  attorney  to  begin  proceedings 
to  compel  the  obstinate  ones  to  comply  with  the  law. 

In  our  study  of  the  "ladder"  question  we  are  finding  that  most  of 
the  opposition  to  the  construction  of  efficient  fish  "ladders"  is  not  on 
account  of  the  expense  entailed  in  construction.  In  many  instances, 
and  particularly  is  it  the  case  with  large  power  companies,  non-com- 
pliance is  because  they  do  not  want  to  allow  sufficient  water  to  pass 
through  the  ladders  to  make  them  operative,  so  as  to  support  and  pre- 
serve the  fish  life  in  the  streams  below  the  plants.  Several  companies 
were  public  spirited  and  made  it  a  rule  to  allow  sufficient  water  to  pass 
through  their  dams  to  keep  the  fish  in  good  condition  during  the 
period  of  the  minimum  flow  of  water  in  the  streams. 

This  work  of  the  inspection  and  installing  of  ' '  ladders ' '  and  screens 
will  be  most  energetically  pursued  in  the  future,  and  I  believe  that 
another  year  will  see  satisfactory  progress  in  this  line. 


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EXPERIMENTS  ON  TRUCKEE  RIVER. 

Mr.  F.  A.  Sheblej^  and  Mr.  N.  B.  Scofield  began  a  series  of  practical 
experiments  on  the  Trnckee  River  during  the  latter  part  of  September, 
to  determine  if  the  refuse  that  passes  into  the  river  from  the  Crown 
Pulp  and  Paper  Mill  at  Floriston  is  injurious  to  trout  eggs  and  fry. 
The  eggs  and  fry  are  being  studied  above  and  below  the  mill  but  the 
experiments  have  not  yet  been  completed.  A  careful  record  is  being 
kept  of  all  the  experiments,  and  so  far  the  results  of  the  experiments 
have  been  very  conclusive.  "When  the  experiments  are  finished  a  full 
report  of  the  results  will  be  sent  to  your  honorable  Board. 

RECOMMENDATIONS. 

Besides  the  suggestions  and  recommendations  that  have  already 
been  made  in  this  report,  there  are  a  few  more  that  I  deem  it  advisable 
to  give  at  this  time.  They  relate  to  the  inauguration  of  a  sea  coast 
patrol  boat,  a  southern  California  hatchery,  discontinuance  of  planting 
eggs  taken  from  the  Sacramento  River  in  other  rivers,  a  general  increase 
of  hatchery  work  and  a  warning  concerning  the  introduction  of  foreign 
fish. 

SEA  COAST  PATROL  BOAT. 

On  my  trips  of  inspection  in  the  southern  coast  counties,  I  inter- 
viewed a  Dumber  of  the  more  prominent  fishermen,  citizens  interested 
in  the  preservation  of  the  marine  fishes,  and  the  deputies  in  the  seaboard 
counties,  and  from  what  I  could  learn  regarding  the  condition  from 
Monterey  south,  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  the  Commission  should  have 
a  motor  boat  for  the  sea  coast  patrol ;  a  seaworthy  boat  that  could  stand 
the  rough  weather,  so  that  the  deputies  could  visit  any  of  the  islands 
from  San  Miguel  Island  south  to  Coronado  Island.  I  believe  that  this 
is  a  very  important  measure  for  your  honorable  Board  to  consider,  and 
I  respectfully  recommend  that  you  give  this  your  early  and  earnest 
consideration,  so  that  the  necessary  recommendation  can  be  made  to  the 
legislature  for  an  appropriation  to  purchase  a  good  seaworthy  patrol 
motor  boat  to  be  used  in  the  coast  and  island  patrol. 

SOUTHERN    CALIFORNIA    HATCHERY. 

In  my  March  report  I  recommended  that  the  Commission  investigate 
conditions  in  southern  California,  with  a  view  to  establishing  a  small 
hatchery  in  that  end  of  the  State.  Pursuant  to  this  recommendation, 
in  company  with  ]\Ir.  E.  AV.  Hunt,  I  made  a  trip  in  October  through 
the  southern  California  coast  counties  lying  south  of  the  Tehachapi 
Mountains.  We  examined  a  number  of  important  sites  and  made  a  care- 
ful study  of  them  to  determine  which  was  the  best  suited  for  the  loca- 
tion of  a  hatchery  to  supply  the  southern  California  streams  with  trout 
fry.  We  found  the  San  Antonio  canon  in  Los  Angeles  County  to  be 
the  most  favorable.  At  this  site  there  is  an  abundance  of  pure  water, 
free  from  algfe,  organic  matter,  or  any  form  of  harmful  bacteria  or 
other  deleterious  matter.  The  site  is  just  above  the  intake  of  the 
Sierra  Power  Company's  pipe  line  in  San  Antonio  caiion,  on  the  south 


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basal  slope  of  Mount  San  Antonio.  From  the  end  of  the  electric  car 
line  to  the  hatchery  site  is  six  and  one  half  miles  of  good  road,  over 
Avhich  a  team  or  auto  truck  can  convey  the  fish  to  the  cars  without 
difficulty.  We  were  informed  that  the  State  could  secure  the  hatchery 
site  and  the  water  necessary  to  operate  the  hatchery  at  a  nominal  sum. 
A  lease  for  at  least  twenty-five  years  or  a  water  right  or  deed  for  40 
inches  of  water  and  two  acres  of  land  would  be  necessary.  We  shall 
endeavor  to  get  an  option  on  this  site  and  a  statement  of  the  amount 
asked  for  the  land  and  water  rights.  If  the  same  can  be  had  at  a 
reasonable  figure,  I  would  respectfully  recommend  that  an  appropria- 
tion be  asked  of  the  next  legislature  for  the  purchase  of  the  site  or  a 
lease  of  same,  as  well  as  for  the  construction  of  the  hatchery,  pipe 
line,  dam,  cottage,  and  for  the  purchase  of  an  auto  truck. 

This  proposition  is  an  important  one.  The  rapidly  increasing  popu- 
lation of  the  southern  part  of  the  State  makes  it  necessary  to  distribute 
a  greater  number  of  fry  in  that  section  each  year,  and  the  most 
economical  way  of  doing  it  is  to  establish  a  hatchery  there. 

INCREASE    OF    HATCHERY    WORK. 

With  the  rapidly  increasing  population  of  California,  I  believe  that 
proportionate  increase  should  be  made  in  the  hatchery  work,  so  that 
a  larger  number  of  fish  can  be  liberated  each  season  to  meet  the  demands 
of  the  increasing  population.  Several  varieties  of  food  and  game  fishes 
from  the  eastern  states  should  be  introduced,  as  I  have  recommended 
in  my  monthly  reports  to  the  Board. 

DANGER    IN    INTRODUCTION    OF    PREDATORY    FISH. 

I  wish  to  call  the  attention  of  your  honorable  Board  and  the  legis- 
lature to  the  danger  of  allowing  any  of  the  more  predatory  fishes 
from  the  eastern  waters  to  be  introduced  into  this  State.  I  would 
respectfully  recommend  that  the  legislature  make  it  a  misdemeanor 
for  any  person,  company  or  corporation  to  introduce,  carry,  trans- 
plant, distribute,  or  ship  into  the  State  of  California  any  live  fish  or 
fish  eggs  without  first  having  obtained  a  permit  in  writing  from  the 
Board  of  Fish  and  Game  Commissioners.  A  number  of  persons  have 
recently  asked  the  Commission  for  some  of  the  more  predatory  fishes 
to  be  placed  in  the  waters  of  our  own  State.  They  mean  to  be  inter- 
ested and  progressive  and  do  not  realize  the  great  damage  that  can 
be  done  by  introducing  undesirable  species.  In  my  opinion  a  strict 
law  should  be  passed  covering  the  subject  so  that  no  one  will  ever 
be  allowed  to  introduce  species  that  would  be  injurious  and  probably 
exterminate  the  valuable  food  fishes  that  we  already  have  and  are 
endeavoring  to  propagate  in  future. 

WITHDRAWING    SALMON    EGGS    FROM    THE   SACRAMENTO    RIVER. 

I  mentioned  in  the  report  on  the  Price  Creek  Hatchery,  that  I  believe 
sufficient  eggs  can  be  taken  from  Eel  River  and  Mad  River  to  stock 
those  rivers.  Heretofore  these  rivers  have  been  stocked  with  eggs  from 
the  Sacramento  River.     I  believe  that  this  should  not  be  continued  and 


46  REPORT    OF    BOARD    OF    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

I  think  that  the  Commission  should  recommend  that  the  Federal 
Bureau  discontinue  this  work.  The  Sacramento  is  far  too  important 
a  river  commercially  to  have  its  supply  of  salmon  eggs  depleted  by 
transplanting  to  other  streams. 

Following  the  general  increase  of  the  hatchery  work  I  wonld  recom- 
mend- that  the  propagation  of  striped  bass  be  taken  up  again.  In  my 
opinion,  if  skilled  fish  culturists  with  modern  apparatus  take  up  this 
very  important  work,  practical  results  can  be  obtained,  and  the  num- 
bers of  this  valuable  food  and  game  fish  can  be  greatly  increased.  The 
legislature  should  appropriate  a  special  fund  for  this  work,  as  it  is  of 
great  economic  value  to  the  people. 

We  now  have  several  thousand  grayling  fry  in  our  ponds  at  Sisson 
Hatchery  that  we  are  rearing  for  breeders.  We  hope  to  be  able  to 
get  enough  breeders  from  these  fry  to  give  us  a  start,  so  that  we  can 
collect  and  hatch  the  eggs  of  this  gamey  fish  for  our  mountain  lakes 
and  streams. 

One  of  the  more  important  improvements  in  the  hatchery  work 
would  be  the  construction  of  a  new  and  modern  hatchery  at  Tahoe  City. 
The  old  hatchery  was  erected  in  1889.  The  building  is  old  and  out 
of  date  and  too  small  to  accommodate  the  number  of  eggs  and  fry 
that  must  be  handled  at  this  station  to  obtain  good  results  in  stocking 
the  numerous  lakes  and  streams  in  the  Tahoe  district.  I  would  respect- 
fully recommend  that  a  special  appropriation  for  this  purpose  be  made 
by  the  next  legislature  if  they  wish  to  keep  up  and  increase  the  work 
at  this  important  station. 

CONCLUSION. 

This  concludes  my  brief  report  of  the  work  done  at  each  of  the 
hatcheries  and  their  numerous  substations.  Generally  speaking  I 
believe  it  has  been  the  most  progressive  year  in  the  history  of  the 
Commission,  more  productive  of  good  results  and  replete  with  every 
assurance  of  just  as  good  if  not  better  prospects  ahead. 

In  the  beginning  of  this  report  I  expressed  my  deep  gratitude  to 
the  members  of  the  Commission  for  their  very  generous  cooperation 
and  support.  I  thoroughly  appreciate  the  assistance  of  my  superiors, 
but  I  must  not  overlook  those  over  whom  I  have  had  general  super- 
vision. They  have  given  to  the  Commission  the  best  service  possible 
at  all  times,  working  night  and  day  when  necessaiw,  each  performing 
his  work  and  filling  his  own  particular  duty  to  the  best  of  his  ability. 
The  hearty  cooperation  of  my  superiors  and  the  competent  assistance 
of  the  employees  of  this  department  have  made  this  year  the  fruitful, 
progressive  year  it  has  been. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

W.  H.  SHEBLEY, 
Superintendent  of  Hatcheries. 
November  1,  1912. 


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PART  II— STATISTICAL. 


CALIFORNIA     FISH     AND    GAME    COMMISSION     ADMINISTRATIVE     DISTRICTS. 

San   Francisco  District. 


Alameda  County. 
Contra  Costa  County. 
Del  Norte  County. 
Humboldt  County. 
Lake  County. 


Alpine  County. 
Amador  County. 
Butte   County. 
Calaveras  County. 
Colusa   County. 
El  Dorado  County. 
Glenn  County. 
Lassen  County. 


Marin  County. 
Mendocino  County. 
Monterey  County. 
San  Benito  County. 
San  Francisco  County. 

Sacramento   District. 

Modoc  County. 
Napa  County. 
Nevada  County. 
Placer  County. 
Plumas  County. 
Sacramento  County. 
San  Joaquin  County. 
Shasta  County. 


San  Mateo  County. 
Santa  Clara  County. 
Santa  Cruz  County. 
Sonoma  County. 


Sierra  County. 
Siskiyou   County. 
Solano  County. 
Sutter  County. 
Tehama  County. 
Trinity  County. 
Yuba  County. 
Yolo  County. 


Imperial  County. 
Inyo  County. 
Los  Angeles  County. 
Mono  County. 


Los  Angeles   District. 

Orange  County. 
Riverside   County. 
San   Bernardino   County. 
San  Diego  County. 


San  Luis  Obispo  County. 
Santa  Barbara  County. 
Ventura  County. 


Fresno  County. 
Kern  County. 
Kings  County. 


Fresno   District. 

Madera  County. 
Mariposa  County. 
Merced  County. 


Stanislaus  County. 
Tuolumne  County. 
Tulare  County. 


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BOARD  Of  fISH  AND  GAME  COMMISSIONERS. 


Roster,  January  1,  1913. 

Commissioners  appointed  by  tlie  Governor,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  Senate. 
Term  at  pleasure  of  the    Governor.     No  pay. 

Stats.  1869-70,  p.  063 ;  Pol.  Code,  Sees.  368,  642,  643. 

F.  M.  Newbert,  President,  Sacramento Appointed  Aug.     3,  1911 

M.  J.  Connell,  Los  xingeles Appointed  Feb.      1,  1909 

Carl  Westerfeld,   San   Francisco Appointed  Nov.  28,  1911 

Ernest  SchaefBe,  Secretary,  San  Francisco Appointed  Nov.  29,  1911 

J.  S.  Hunter '. Assistant  in  Charge  Game  Conservation 

W.  H.  Shebley Superintendent  of  Hatcheries 

J.  H.  Hoerl Clerk  to  Superintendent  of  Hatcheries 

R.  D.  Duke Attorney 

Head  Ofp.ce,  San  Francisco   (7J4  Mills  Building). 

Under  direction  of  Commissioner  Carr Westerfeld. 

Ernest    SchaefBe    Secretary  H.   R.   Dunbar Clerk 

Arthur  M.   Fairfield Assistant  Secretary  B.   McI.    Rutter Clerk 

O.    H.    Reichling Cashier  Mae    D.    Horn Stenograplier 

Leo  N.   Pettit Record  Clerk  M.    O.    Vreeland Stenographer 

Los  Angeles  Office   {510  Consolidated  Realty  Building). 

Under  direction  of  Commissioner  M.  J.  Connell. 

H.    I.    Pritchard Assistant    E.  A.  McKee Clerk  and  Stenographer 

Fresno  Office  (<J//7  Forsyth  Building) . 

Under  direction  of  Deputy  A.  D.  Ferguson. 
Lida    H.    Ransom Stenographer 

Sacramento  Office  {Forum  Building). 

Under  direction  of  Commissioner  F.  M.  Newbert. 

Geo.    Neale    Assistant    R.  E.   Cannel Clerk  and  Stenographer 

List    of    Regular    Deputies,    San     Francisco     District. 

Alameda  County. 

J.    L.    Bundock Oakland 

Earle   Downing    Pleasanton 

Amos  O.   Stinson . Alameda 

Dei  Norte  County. 
Paul   Smith Requa 

Humboldt  County. 

Earl    P.    Barnes Eureka 

Theo.  Benson Fortuna 

Mendocino  County. 

Wm.   Ray L Laytonville 

B.    H.   Miller Ukiah 

Ma7~in  County. 

Sheridan   G.    Smith Bolinas 

Vernon  D.  Thomas San  Rafael 

Herbert  E.  Foster San  Rafael 

Monterey  County. 

Phil  H.  Oyer Pacific  Grove 

Frank    Shook    Salinas 


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Santa  Cruz  County. 
J.    H.    Hill , Watsonville 

Santa  Clara  County. 
I.  L.  Koppel San  Jose 

San  Mateo  County. 
Frank  H.   Smith Half  Moon  Bay 

San  Francisco  County. 

M.   S.   Clark San   Francisco 

Ray    B.    Heacock San    Francisco 

Sonoma  County. 

A.    F.    Lea Cloverdale 

Henry  Lencioni Santa  Rosa 

Patrol  Launch  "Quinnat." 

H    B.   Nidever.  Captain Headquarters,   Vallejo 

J.  Christenson,  Engineer 

Los  Angeles    District. 

Inyo    County. 

E.  H.  Ober Bishop 

Orange  County. 

F.  A.   Forster Capistrano 

Riverside  County. 
Jas.    H.    Gyger Ferris 

Los  Angeles  County. 
I.  A.  Bordner Long  Beach 

Santa  Barbara  County. 
H.  J.   Abels Santa  Maria 

San  Bernardino  County. 
Jas.   A.   Vale San   Bernardino 

San  Diego  County. 
Webb  Toms San  Diego 

Ventura  County. 
Jas.    A.    Rasmussen Ventura 

Fresno   District. 

Kern   County. 
Tipton    Mathews Wasco 

Fresno  County. 

S.    L.   N.   Ellis : Fresno 

F.    A.    Bullard Dunlap 

Stanislaus  County. 

J.    E.    Newsome Newman 

R.  B.  Shepherd Merced 

Tulare  County. 

E.   W.   Smalley Hanford 

D.   H.   Hoen Visalia 

Tuolumne  County. 
W.    G.    Scott Soulsbyville 

Sacramento    District. 

Amador  County. 
Fred  Werner Sutter  Creek 

Calaveras  County. 
David  E.   Roberts Murphys 

Colusa  County. 
S.    J.    Carpenter Maxwell 

El  Dorado  County. 
Euell   Gray   Shingle 

4—2956 


50  REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 

Lassen  County. 
Frank  P.   Cady -i Susan ville 

Napa  County. 
^A'm.   J.    Moore Napa 

Modoc  County. 

John   Todd   Bonner Alturas 

Geo.    W.    Courtwright Straw 

Nevada  County. 
R.   C.   O'Connor Grass  Valley 

Placer  County. 

S.   J.   Mandeville Truckee 

C.   A.   Scroggs Loomis 

Plumas  County. 
Geo.    W.     Chamberlin Quincy 

Sacramento  County. 

Wm.    J.    Green Sacramento 

C.    H.    Blemer Sacramento 

Siskiyou  County. 
Frank   S.   Parke Yreka 

Solano  County. 
Wm.    H.    Armstrong Vallejo 

San  Joaquin  County. 

Richard    Squire Lodi 

George  J.   Merritt Stockton 

Shasta  County. 
J.    S.    White Castella 

Trinity  County. 
G.    O.    Laws Weaverville 

Tehama  County. 
T.  W.  Birmington Red  Bluff 

Yolo  County. 
R.    K    Sinkey Woodland 

E.  E.  Wilgus Winters 

Special    Investigators,   Game   Farm   and    Hatchery   Employees. 

Special  Investigators. 

Harold  Heath    (Mollusks) Stanford  University 

N.  B.  Scofield  (Salmon  and  Fishery  Methods) Sunnyvale 

F.  W.  Weymouth   (Crabs) Stanford  University 

Willard  E.   Kay    (Crabs) . '. Stanford  University 

H.  C.  Bryant   (Game  and  Non-Game  Birds) University  of  California 

Chas.   L.  Edwards   (Abalone) Los  Angeles 

Gretchen    L.     Libby,     Educational    Assistant Riverside 

Frank  C.  Clarke  (Deer  and  Other  Game  Animals) University  of  California 

R.  W.  Requa,  Assistant  in  Fishway  and  Screen  Work Sisson 

A.  E.  Doney,  Assistant  in  Fishway  and  Screen  Work Sisson 

Chas.  L.  Gilmore,  In  Charge  Stream  Survey Sacramento 

Hayward    Game    Farm. 

W.   N.   Dirks Superintendent 

David   Fontes    Assistant 

Fish    Hatchery   Employees. 

Sisson  Hatchery. 

E.  W.  Hunt Superintendent 

F.  McCrea    Foreman 

E.  V.  Cassell Assistant 

C.  Nixon Inside  Foreman 

P.  Sullaway - Outside  Foreman 

F.  Clessens    Assistant 

J.  McManus Assistant 

Geo.    McCloud,    Jr Assistant 

E.    Clessens    Assistant 

J.  E.  Winchcomb Assistant 

R.  L  Bassler Assistant 

Wm.   Hefferman   Assistant 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS.  51 

Brookdale  Hatchery. 

F.  A.   Shebley Superintendent 

H.   L.   Nelf . Assistant 

Swanton  Egg  Collecting  Station,  Scott  Creek. 
W.  H.  Rich Deputy  in  Charge 

Grizzly  Bluff  Hatchery,  Eel  River. 

W.    O.    Fassett Superintendent 

N.   F.    Slsson Assistant 

Sacramento  Experimental  Salmon  Station. 

M.  L.  Cross Superintendent 

Geo.   A.    West Assistant 

Wm.    Rogers   Assistant 


INVENTORY  Of  STATE  PROPERTY  IN  CHARGE  Of  fISH  AND  GAME  COMMISSION. 

Recapitulation    Statement,    June   30,    1912. 

Office  equipment,  San  Francisco $2,204  05 

Office  equipment,  Sacramento 609  60 

Office  equipment,  Fresno   594  50 

Office  equipment,  Los   Angeles   579  60 

•    .$3,987  75 

Hatcheries. 
Sisson  Hatchery,  including  fish  distribution  car  and' equipment, 
cottage  at  Sisson,  Shasta  River  Station,  Shovel  Creek  Sta- 
tion, Bogus  Creek  Station,  Camp  Creek,  material  at  Terry 

and  at  Thrall .$41,204  35 

Tahoe  Hatchery 4,76S  70 

Tallac  Hatchery  and  cottage 4,823  10 

Tallac  Spawning  Station,  cottage  and  cabin 080  79 

Glen  Alpine  Hatchery 30  05 

Scott  Creek  (Santa  Cruz  County) 1.218  SO 

Price  Creek  Hatchery   (Humboldt  County) 2,840  55 

Sacramento  Experimental  Station - —  580  49 

Wawona  Hatchery 86  00 

Ukiah  Hatchery 83  65 

Bouldin  Island  Hatchery  (stored.  South  End  Warehouse) 125  00 

56,507  48 

Launches. 

"Quinnat"   and  equipment $5,712  90 

"Shad"  and  equipment 1.174  60 

"Audubon"  and  equipment 740  75 

— 7,628  25 

State  Game  Farm. 

Equipment,  cottage  and  tank  house $9,251  94 

Game  birds  and  animals 2,242  63 

11,494  57 

Miscellci,neous. 

State  property  in  charge  of  Commission  employees 1,658  79 

Collecting  nets  stored  at  Vallejo 126  00 

Total   $81,402  84 


52  REPORT    OF    BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


REVENUES  AND  EXPENDITURES. 

The  following  financial  statement  shows  concisely  and  fully  the 
sources  and  amounts  of  the  funds  coming  into  the  Board's  control 
since   the   filing   of   the   last   biennial   report,   with   the   channels   and 

amounts  of  expenditures : 

Balance  on  hand  June  30,  1910 $73,318  21 

Receipts. 

Sale  of  hunting-  licenses,  1910-1911 $143,265  00 

Sale   of   hunting   licenses,    1911-1912 146,181  00 

$289,446  00 


Sale  of  commercial  fishing  licenses,  1910-1911 $23,595  00 

Sale  of  commercial  fishing  licenses,  1911-1912 23,545  00 

47,140  00 

Sale  of  wholesale  fish  and  game  dealers'  licenses,  1911-1912 1,265  00 

Fines   paid   into   state   treasury   for  violations   of   fish   and 

game  laws,  1910-1911 $15,941  30 

Fines  paid   into   state   treasury  for  violations  of  fish  and 

game  laws,  1911-1912 19,-530  13 

35,471  43 


Sale  of  game  and  produce  from  Game  Farm 2,097  80 


Total .$375,422  23 

Disbursements,  Year  1910-1911. 

San  Francisco  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc $86,803  60 

Los  Angeles  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc 16,407  40 

Fresno  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc 14,145  85 

Game  Farm — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  purchase  of  birds,  etc 10,805  64 

Hatcheries  and  spawning  stations — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  supplies  30,611  32 

Distribution  of  fish   (by  car) — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  etc 4,802  61 

Fish  patrol    (launches) — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  etc 12,811  02 

Scientific   investigations   and    publicity    relating   thereto — Salaries,    ex- 
penses, supplies,  etc 5,814  58 

Prosecutions  and  fees 7,492  35 

Commissions  on  sale  of  hunting  licenses  and  refunds 12,586  43 

Bounties  on  California  lions 5,420  00 


Total $207,770  80 

Note. — During  the  year  1910-11   the  San  Francisco  District  included  the  counties 
now  forming  the  Sacramento   District. 

Disbursements,   1911-1912. 

San  Francisco  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc .$49,885  -54 

Sacramento  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc 35,700  39 

I/OS  Angeles  District — Salaries,  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc 18,.555  38 

P^resno  District — Salaries  traveling  expenses,  rentals,  etc 21390  68 

(lame  Farm — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  purchase  of  birds,  etc 8,228  84 

Hatcheries   and   spawning  stations — Salaries,   traveling  expenses,   sup- 
plies,   etc.    - 40,998  09 

Distribution  of  fish  (by  car) — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  etc 5,561  58 

Fish  patrol   (launches) — Salaries,  expenses,  supplies,  etc 6,046  01 

Scientific    investigations    and   publicity    relating   thereto — Salaries,    ex- 
penses, supplies,  etc 8,806  65 

Prosecutions  and  fees 9,245  37 

Commissions  on  sale  of  hunting  and  fishing  licenses  and  refunds 13,161  40 

Bounties  on  California  lions 5,680  00 

Miscellaneous  charges 6,910  46 


Total $230,170  39 

June  30,  1912,  balance  in  state  treasury,  after  June  bills  were  paid 32,634  68 

(It  is  impossible  to  reconcile  statement  of  license  sales  and  other  revenues  for  any 
year  with  statement  of  payments  into  and  balances  of  state  treasury,  as  collections 
are  not  all  made  during  same  fiscal  year.) 


REPORT    OF    BOARD   OF   PISH    AND   GAME    COMMISSIONERS.  53 

It  should  be  explained  that  an  appropriation  of  $20,000.00  yearly 
for  the  support  and  maintenance  of  hatcheries,  which  was  available 
up  to  June  30,  1910,  has  not  been  received  since  that  time.  In  con- 
sequence of  this  loss,  the  fish  cultural  work  of  the  Board  has  been 
seriously  interfered  with  and  will  be  more  greatly  impeded  and  injured 
within  the  next  two  years  if  the  appropriation  is  not  restored  and  in 
increased  amount. 

As  the  foregoing  statement  shows,  the  Board's  receipts  from  all 
direct  fishery  sources — that  is,  from  the  sale  of  commercial  fishing 
licenses  and  fines  for  the  violation  of  fish  laws — amounts  to  only 
$60,000.00  in  round  numbers  for  the  biennial  term.  This  amount  is 
entirely  insufficient  to  maintain  the  fish  work  of  the  State  on  a  proper 
plane  and  can  not  properly  be  increased  by  diversions  from  the  rev- 
enues derived  from  game  and  hunting  sources. 

According  to  Dr.  T.  S.  Palmer,  assistant  chief  of  the  U.  S.  Biological 
Survey,  a  Calif ornian  and  recognized  by  competent  authorities  as 
being  one  of  the  foremost  game  conservationists  of  the  world,  this 
State  presents  a  problem  that  is  not  faced  by  the  fish  and  game  com- 
missions of  any  other  state.  The  problem  is  unusual  and  great,  not 
merely  because  of  the  great  area  and  length  of  the  State,  with 
attendant  geographical  and  climatic  variations,  but  because  of  the 
numbers  of  species  and  extensive  ranges  of  some  of  the  most  important 
members. 


54 


REPORT    OF    BOARD    OF    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SEIZURES  OF   FISH,   GAME   AND    ILLEGALLY    USED    FISHING   APPARATUS. 

July  1,  1910,  to  June  30,  1912. 


1 

San  Francisco 
district. 

1 

Sacramento 
district. 

Los  Angeles 
district. 

! 

Fresno 
district. 

Total. 

Illegally   used   fishing 
apparatus  (nets  and 
lines) 

47 

146  lbs. 

2,086  lbs. 

671  lbs. 

82 

33 

12  lbs. 

162 

Salmon 

158  lbs. 

Striped  bass 

355  lbs. 

2,441  lbs. 

Steelhead   

671  lbs. 

Black  bass     _      -  _    

20  lbs. 
333  lbs. 
100  lbs. 

40  lbs. 
135 

139  lbs. 

1,525  lbs. 

16  lbs. 

159  lbs. 

Catfish     

50  lbs. 
525  lbs. 

25  lbs. 
1,774 
586  lbs. 

1,908  lbs. 

Trout      

641  lbs. 

Crawfish     _ 

10  lbs. 

75  lbs. 

Crabs 

60 

1,969 

Dried  shrimn 

586  lbs. 

Abalones 

50 

\     16    sacks 
[    24i  sacks* 

(    64 

"!     16    sacks 

Clams 

390 

356  lbs. 
502  lbs. 

47 

5,822 

508 

20 
105 
561 

L    24Jsacks* 
390 

Misppllaneons   flsh 

20  lbs. 
399  lbs. 
3 

3,500  lbs. 
145  lbs. 

3,876  lbs. 

Deer  meat     _  _  _ 

130  lbs. 

1,176  lbs. 

Deei'  hides 

50 

Ducks        -      _      -  - 

786 
30 

350 

1 

11 

6,958 

Quail     -  -      

539 

Doves 

31 

Plover,  rail,  snipe,  etc. 

Non-game  birds  

Pheasants 

105 

5 

2  live 

566 

2  live 

Trpp  snnirrels 

60     ■ 
583 

60 

Rabbits    

9- 

57 

31 

680 

Illegally  used  fishing  apparatus,  after  condemnation  in  superior 
courts,  is  destroyed  by  the  Board;  all  wholesome  fish  and  game  is 
donated  to  public  and  charitable  institutions,  from  whom  many  grateful 
letters  of  acknowledgment  have  been  received. 


Note. — Complete    and    accurate    record    of    seizures   kept   and    reported    only    since 
April,   1912. 

*Sacks  of  shells. 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS.  55 


RECAPITULATION. 

Arrests — 

Fish  eases  748 

Game  cases  1,315 

Total 2,063 

Convictions — 

Fish  cases  505 

Game  cases  1,116 

1,621 

Acquittals  and  dismissals- 
Fish  eases  200 

Game  ea^es  193 

393 

Pending  cases- 
Fish  cases  ■ 43 

Game  eases  6 

49 

Total 2,063 

Fines  imposed— 

Fish  cases  $12,725  00 

Game  cases  23,993  50 

Total $36,718  50 

Fines  paid  into  courts — 

Fish  cases  $11,415  00 

Game  cases  23,109  00 

Total - $34,524  00 


56 


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REPORT   OF    BOARD   OF   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


COMMERCIAL    FISHING    LICENSES    ISSUED. 


April  1,  1910.  to  March  31,  1911— 

Alien   $19,140  00 

Citizen  4,455  00 

Total $23,595  00 

April  1,  1911,  to  March  31,  1912— 


Name  of  district. 


Alien. 


Citizen. 


Total. 


Lower  Sacramento 

Upper  Sacramento  

Southern  California  coast. - 

Bay  district  

Bay  district  

Tomales  Bay  district 

Bay  district  

Bay  district  

Tahoe  district 

Monterey  district 

Humboldt  district  

Del  Norte  district 

Bay  district  

San  Joaquin  district 

Humboldt  district  

Humboldt  district  _.- 

San  Joaquin  district 

Upper  Sacramento  district- 
All  districts  


$650  00 
10  00 

3,730  00 
800  00 
620  00 
180  00 

5,130  00 

620  OO 

10  00 

1,180  00 
260  00 
520  OO 
390  00 
20  00 
380  00 


10  00 


4,135  00 


Totals $18,645  00 


$462  50 

287  50 

1,117  50 

67  50 

45  00 

110  00 

377  50 

20  00 

237  50 

132  50 

102  50 

375  00 

12  50 

15  00 

457  50 

7  50 

7  50 

12  50 

1,052  50 


$1,112  50 

297  50 

4,847  50 

867  50 

665  00 

290  00 

5,507  50 

640  00 

247  50 

1,312  50 

362  50 

895  00 

402  50 

35  00 

837  50 

7  50 

17  50 

12  50 

5,187  50 


$4,902  50 


$23,545  00 


REPORT    OF    BOARD   OF    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


59 


STATEMENT    OF    LION     BOUNTIES    PAID     BY    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSION 
FROM   OCTOBER,   1907,  TO  JANUARY  1,  1913. 


Counties. 

1907. 

1908. 

1909. 

1910. 

1911. 

1912. 

Total. 

1 
3 

11 
1 
3 

10 
7 
1 

13 
113 

1 

Amador 

-- 

4 

12" 

2 

3 

6 

67 

1 

2 
1 
3 
4 
1 
1 
6 
71 

2 
4 

3" 

11 
8 
__ 

42 

2 

3 

1 

1 
11 

9 

4 

4 
50 

1 

9 
10 

1 

-- 

1 

17 

8 

Butte    

2 

27 

Calaveras 

7 

Colusa 

i 

10 

Del  Norte        

1 

48 

El  Dorado     

2 

29 

Fresno                        

9 

Glenn -  - 

_ 

30 

Humboldt - 

10 

353 

invo 

1 

Kern     

8 
14 

10 
11 
1 
1 
5 
3 
18 

12 
13 
.. 

1 
6 

11 
1 
1 
7 
1 
1 
1 
1 
3 

5 
9 
2 
2 

2' 
16 

44 

Lake 

2 

59 

Lassen 

4 

IjOs  Ansreles 

7 

3 

4 

44 

12 

Madera 

10 

Mariposa -  - - 

2 

5 

18 

Mendocino     _ 

111 

1 

Modoe               _    

1 
11 

1 

2 

3 

Monterey    -- 

14 

36 

Napa                             -- 

3 

1 

1 
1 
4 

.- 

2 
2 
5 
5 

3 

Oranffe 

1 
2 

7 
1 
4 
11 
._ 

4 

3 

Placer                      

5 
2 
2 
1 
5 
3 
11 

19 

Plumas       _  _ 

6 

11 

San  Benito 

1 
1 

5 
9 

1 
7 

2 
2 
8 
4 

17 

San  Bernardino 

10 

San  Dieero                        

24 

Kan   T/Uis  Obisno 

33 

Snn  Mateo 

1 

7 

24 
4 

3 

5 
1 

46 

Santa  Clara 

0 

1 
31 

1 

Shasta         _ -  - 

1 

25 

1 

31 

32 

29 

28 

3 
25 

4 

-- 

22 
15 

5 

4 

2 

146 

Sierra 

4 

Siskivou         _ 

1 

35 
2 
2 

45 
4 

25 
1 
1 

162 

11 

Stanislaus                _ 

3 

1 

Tehama   - 

3 
9 

31 

86 
6 
6 

1 
1 

19 
34 

8 
10 

6 

25 

32 

11 

5 

4 

10 
22 
4 
2 
6 
2 

110 

198 

Tulare 

34 

27 

Ventura        _      - 

19 

Yuba     -                       .  _  _  

3 

Totals 

37" 

482 

361 

333 

233 

275 

1.721 

60 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


STATE   GAME   FARM,    HAYWARDS. 
Distribution  of  game  birds,  1911. 


Pheasants. 


Wild 
Turkeys. 


Partridges. 


Quail. 


Sold  for  breeding  purposes 

Given  away  for  breeding  and  exhibition 

purposes  

Released  

Eggs  given  away  for  breeding  and  exhibi- 
tion  purposes   


200 

88 
100 

358 


33 

155' 


00 


44 


60 


Date. 


STATE   GAME    FARM,    HAYWARDS. 

Distribution  of  game  birds,  1912. 

Alameda  County. 


Applicant, 


Address. 


Pheasants. 


Wild 

Turkeys. 


Quail. 


1912. 

Mar.  20 
Mar.  21 
Mar.  25 
Mar.  25 
Jan.  14 
Jan.  15 
Jan.  21 
Feb.  4 
Mar.  19 
Apr.  20 
May  7 
May  7 
May  17 
May  24 
June  7 
Aug.  10 
Sept.  16 


Fish  and  Game  Com 

C.   A.   Kofoid 

Fish  and  Game  Com 

Fish  and  Game  Com 

H.  C.  Cutting 

Mrs.  Mathiassen 

Mr.    Childs    

H.  C.  Cutting 

County  Infirmary  

Dr.  Harvey  Baker 

Mrs.  Millette 

Mrs.  Millette 

E.  K.  Strowbridge 

F.  Russell  

J.  W.  Marvin 

C.  J.  Smith 

C.  L.  Crellin 


Livermore 

U.  C,  Berkeley. 

Sunol   

Livermore 

San  Lorenzo  __- 
San  Lorenzo  .__ 

Oakland  

San  Lorenzo  __- 


Berkeley  __. 
Hayward  _- 
Hayward  _. 
Hayward  _- 
Alameda  _. 
Livermore  . 
Oakland  -_. 
Pleasanton 


28^ 

1^ 

141 

131 


53 

23 
43 

1^ 


12  eggs- 
14  eggs^ 
50  eggs^ 
2^ 
50^ 


1^ 


De 

1    Norte   County. 

Sept.  25 

Paul  Smith 

Requa    _      _  .  ._ 

inoi              .  

Fresno   County. 


Feb.  22 
Mar.  1 
Sept.  2 
Sept.  23 


A.  V.  Lisenby 

Fish  and  Game  Com.... 

Fish  and  Game  Com 

Fish  and  Game  Com 


Fresno  3* 

Sanger  _^ I  40^ 

Sanger '  lOO^ 

Dunlap 60^ 


Humboldt  County. 

Aug.  24 

Earl   P.  Barnes 

Earl  P.  Barnes 

!  Eureka 

Eureka    

100^ 

Aug.  24 

50^ 

Lassen   County. 

Sept.   4 

Frank  P.  Cadv 

Geo.  Wingfield 

Susanville 

,  Jamesville 

100*           ' 

Sept.  21 

I 

50* 

REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


61 


STATE   GAME    FARM,    HAYWARDS. 

Distribution  of  Game  Birds,  1912 — Continuefl. 

Mendocino  County. 


Date. 


Mar.    5 
Sept.  13 


Feb.  13 
Aug.  20 
Sept.  9 


Applicant. 


Address. 


Pheasants. 


Capt.  Neilsen I  Willits 

B.  H.  Miller Ukiah  . 


3« 
50^ 


Fish  and  Game  Com 1  Tres  Pinos  .. 

J.  H.  Hill Watsonville 

J.  Lee  Jones Tres  Pinos  _. 


lOQi 


Wild 

Tuikeys. 


Quail. 


Monterey  County 

May  24 

Frank  Shook  

Phil  Oyer 

— 

Salinas  --    -  _  - 

2^ 

Aug.  12 

Pnnifip  Grnvfi 

100^ 

1 

Napa  County. 

Sept.  13 
Sept.  18 

W.  J.  Moore 

Napa  

St.  Helena 

50^ 
50^ 

John  McCormick 

Nevada   County. 

Feb    12 

T.  P.  Hogan 

Dr.  I.  W.  Hays 

Grftufi  Vallfiv 

2* 

Sept.  18 

Grass  Valley    __ 

30^ 

i 

I 

Placer   County. 

Sept.    5 

Montgomery  Godley 

— 

Lincoln 

25»    

Sacramento   County. 

Jan.  24 

Fish  and  Game  Com 
Geo.  G.  Lacke 

— 

Folsom 

2(F 

Oct.     7 

Walnut  Grove  __ 

30^ 

San  Benito  County. 

251 

50^ 


San   Francisco   County. 


Mar.  18 
Mar.  19 
Sept.  18 


U.  S.  Marine  Hospital. 

Golden  Gate  Park 

Capt.  C.  A.  Gove 


San  Francisco  .. 
San  Francisco  _. 
Yerba  Buena  Isl, 


2^ 
251 


San  Mateo  County. 


Jan.  22 
Apr.     2 


J.   B.   Leonard. 
J.   B.    Leonard. 


Menlo  Park 
Menlo  Park 


12^ 
1» 


Santa  Clara  County. 


Jan.  25 
Feb.  12 
Mar.  18 


R.  W.  Withey. 
P.  S.  Daniels- 
R.  W.  Withey- 


Los  Gatos 

Mountain  View 
Los  Gatos  


62 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


STATE    GAME    FARM,    HAYWARDS. 

Distribution  of  Game  Birds,  1912 — Continued. 

Santa  Cruz  County. 


Jan.  23 


Tuolumne  County. 


Fish  and  Game  Com. 


Tuolumne 


Date. 

Applicant. 

Address. 

Pheasants. 

Wild 
Turkeys. 

Quail. 

Aug.  13 

Geo.  Martin  and 
H.  C.  Peekham. 

Watsonville 

50^ 

Shasta  County. 

Oct.      4 

B.  C.  McCray 



Redding   .. 

32^      . 

Solano   County. 

Aug.  27 

John  Hollenbeck  ._ 

Ryer  Island 

100^ 

Sonoma   County. 

Feb.     5 

Thompson  Bros.  ___ 
F.  M.  Child 

Pfitalnma. 

3« 

Sept.  15 

Cazadero  

25^ 

Stanislaus   County, 

Aug.  14 

Geo.  Prowse 

Oakdale   

JS 

Sutter  County. 

Feb.   15 

Mrs.  D.  W.  Chilson. 

!  Pleasant  Grove 

1* 

Tehama  County. 

Jan.  17 

C.   C.  Barrows 

j 
Cornine' 

4* 

5(F 


Tulare   County. 


Sept.  2 
Sept.  2 
Sept.   2 

Sept.  23 


J.  D.  Blick 

Tom  Jacobs 

Porterville  Game  Pro- 
tective Association. 

Deer  Creek  Pish  and 
Game  Protective  As- 
sociation. 

Totals  — 


Three  Rivers 

Visalia    

Porterville    _ 

Hot  Springs  _ 


501 
25^ 

40^ 


1,398 
76  eggs 


368 


^Released. 

=^Given  for  experiment. 

^Exchange  for  other  birds. 

*Sold. 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OP   PISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


63 


HATCHERIES. 

Fish    Distribution     (Partial),    Season    1911. 

(Note. — Because  of  the  loss  of  records  during  the  absence  from  his  office  of 
Superintendent  W.  H.  Shebley  in  1911,  only  a  partial  statement  of  that  season's 
distribution  can  be  given.)  (Secretary.) 


Counties. 


Black 
bass. 


Alameda  

Amador 

Butte   

Calaveras   

Contra  Costa  ._. 

Colusa  

EJ    Dorado   

Fresno  

Inyo  — 

Kern 

Lake  

Lassen  

Los  Angeles 

Marin  

Mariposa  

Mendocino 

Modoc    

Mono    

Monterey  

Napa  

Nevada   

Orange    

Placer   

Plumas    

Riverside  

Sacramento   

San  Benito  

San  Bernardino 

San  Diego  

San  Mateo  

Santa  Barbara  . 
Santa  Clara  — 

Shasta  

Sierra  

Siskiyou 

Solano  

Sonoma    

Tehama 

Trinity   

Tulare   

Tuolumne    

Ventura    

Yuba  


700 


50 


775 


Rainbow 
trout. 


10,000 
16,000 
74,000 
72,000 


Eastern 
brook  trout. 


18,000 


Loch  Leven 
trout. 


Black- 
spotted 
trout. 


40,000 
117,000 
12,000 
60,000 
30,000 
24,000 
44,000 
79,500 


8,000 
60,500 

"37^000' 


6,000 
9,000 


54,000 


16,000 


20,000 


*1,130 


48,000 
42,000 
46,000 
52,000 

108,000 
15,000 

174,100 
75,000 


20,000 
36,000 


35,500 

36,000 

43,000 

6,000 


4,000 


50,000 


14,000 
38,000 


61,000 


113,000 
40,500 


*630 


Totals 


♦Adult. 


3,285 


36,000 

540,000 
18,000 
32,000 
36,000 
64,000 

331,000 
16,000 

174,000 
10,000 
20,000 
96,000 
22,000 

100,000 
78,000 
33,000 
12,000 


2,810,600 


2,000 


6,000 

17,500 


4,000 


20,000 
18,000 


497,500 


95,000 


50,500 
126.000 


1,636,305 


Steelhead 
trout. 


758,446 


;,000 


35,500 
10.000 


335,000 


4,000 

12,800 

250 

24,000 


607,550  i  2,729,751 


345,000 


;,000 

;,ooo 


6,000 


68.000 


65,000 
'283;000 


44,000 
215,000 


250,000 
4,000 


434,000 

iiaooo 


12,000 


6,100 


1,858,100 


64 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
Distribution  of  Loch  Leven  Trout. 


.  Applicant. 

Number. 

Waters  stocked. 

Month  of 
delivery. 

B.    Belden   

3,000 

Indian  and  Yellow  creeks,  Plumas  County 

May 

H.    0.    Chamberlain  and 

18,000 

Homer  Lake,  Long  Valley  reservoir,  and  Wolf 

May 

others. 

Creek,  Plumas  County. 

W.   C.   Robinson 

18,000 

Bear,    Buck,    Mill,    Big,    Clear,    Rock,    Silver 
and  Grizzly  creeks,  Plumas  Coimty. 

May 

M.   H.   Bernheim 

12,000 

Eureka,  Grass,  Jamison  and  Rock  lakes  and 
Jamison  Creek,   Plumas  County. 

May 

Portola  Improvement  As- 

9,000 

Willow,   Humbug  and  Grizzly  creeks,   Plumas 

May 

sociation. 

County. 

Smith  &  Weil 

6,000 

Mill  Creek  and  Three  Lakes,  Plumas  County. - 

May 

Taylorsville  Gun  Club 

12,000 

Lights,    Cooks,    Indian    and    Grizzly    creeks, 
Plumas  County. 

May 

Quincy  Gun  Club 

18,000 

Spanish,  Rock,   Mill,   Clear,   Greenhorn,   Tay- 

May 

lor  creeks   and  Middle  Fork  Feather  River, 

Plumas  County. 

C   N.   Johnston 

12,000 

Feather     River     and     Smith     Creek,     Plumas 
County. 

May 

G.    r.    Edwards 

12,000 
6,000 

Tributaries  of  Feather  River,  Plumas  County 
Feather    River,    Sulphur    and   Willow   creeks, 
Plumas  County. 

May 

A.  Macliomich 

May 

r.  M.  Rutherford 

15,000 

Truckee    River,    Schaffer    and    Alder    creeks, 
Nevada  County. 

May 

A'^      A      Hawkins 

18,000 

12,000 

.Shasta  River,   Siskiyou  County 

May 

North     T^^nrlf     Qffmp     T*ro- 

Willow  Orppk     Placer  Countv 

May 

tective  Association. 

T  T  ia^  yj  T  T       V-/  1  ^  \_  *»  J      -*_  1  i.L  v..  V.  4       ^_/  ^-^  *_*  j.i  *^4T  ^■•— ^^^^^-.-^^••"^^^^^^ 

J.   B.   Knapp 

6,000 

Canyon    Creek    and    North    Fork    American 
River,  Placer  County. 

June 

Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and 

18,000 

Blackwood  Creek  and  Truckee  River,   Placer 

June 

Transportation  Co. 

County. 

Nevada  City  Hunting  and 

21,000 

Deer    and    Rock    creeks    and    Woods    Ravine, 

June 

Pishing  Club. 

Nevada  County. 

1.   Y.    Coggins 

9,000 

Dobkins   Lake  and  North   Fork   Eddy   Creek, 
Siskiyou  County. 

June 

E.  Meybem 

"Fi'pd    Werner 

12,000 
12,000 
30,000 

Buttfi  Creek    Butte  Countv  -        . 

June 

Sutter  Creek.  Amador  Countv 

June 

City  of  Vallejo 

Lake  No.  2  and  creek  between  Dam  No.  1  and 

June 

Dam  No.  2,  Solano  County. 

Presno  Division,  Fish  and 

36,000 

Tamarack,    Maxwell,    Log   Cabin,    Two   Mile, 

July 

Game  Commission. 

Pingley     and     Red     Can     lakes,     Tuolumne 
County. 

Geo.  F.  Conlin 

12,000 

South     Fork     Stanislaus     River,     Tuolumne 
County. 

July 

R.   B.   Shaw  and  H.    M. 

24,000 

North    and    Middle    forks    Tuolumne    River, 

July 

De  Ferrari. 

Tuolumne   County. 

J.  0.  Bigelow 

D.    E.    Roberts 

24,000 
12,000 

Basin    Oreek     Tuolumne   Countv  _ 

July 

North  Fork  Stanislaus  River  and  Beaver,  San 

July 

Antone  and  O'Neal  creeks,  Calaveras  County. 

H.  M.  Freeman 

36,000 

Three  Loch  Leven  lakes.  Placer  County 

July 

Miss  Katherine  Chandler.. 

12,000 

Five  Lakes  and  Bear  and  Squaw  creeks.  Placer 
County. 

July 

Al  Tahoe  Company 

6,000 

Trout  and  Cold  creeks.  El  Dorado  County 

July 

H.    E.    Cagwin 

9,000 

Upper    and    Lower    Echo    lakes.    El    Dorado 

July 

County. 

Santa   Clara   Fish   and 

24,000 

Planted  in  the  streams  of  Santa  Clara  County 

July 

Game  Protective  Asso- 

ciation. 

G     F     Edwards 

18,000 
6,000 

Gold   Lake,    Plumas   County 

July 

H.    L.    Beecroft 

Grizzly  Creek  and  Ice  Lake,  Plumas  County. — 

July 

Frank  P.   Cady 

7,500 

Susan    River   and   Silver    and   Caribou   lakes, 
Lassen  County. 

July 

Geo.   D.    Campbell 

L.  H.  Sisson 

2,500 
2,500 

East  Creek,  Modoc  County 

July 

South  Fork  Mill  Creek,  Modoc  County 

July 

Ira  Hansen  

2,500 

Parker   Creek,   Modoc  County.. 

July 

REPORT    OP    BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


65 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Loch  Leven  Trout — Continued. 


Applicant. 


Sisson  Promotion  Asso- 
ciation. 

Geo.    Neale  

Presno  Division,  Fish  and 
Game  Commission. 

W.    P.   Yaney 

A.    If.   Stewart 

Hall    &    McAfee 

A.    Davies  

A.  Papa  

J.   S.    Cain 

A.   G.   McFarland 

Webber  Lake  Club 

G.  P.  Zentgraff 

J.   M.  Amick 

G.    S.    Wilson — . 

W.  E.  Tebbe 

(Jeo.   E.   King 

R.  Colwell 

Jas.  Bryson 

Glen  Alpine  Springs  Com- 
pany. 

Mayo  A.  Greenlaw 

W.  W.   Price - 


Grass  Valley  Sportsmen's 
Club. 

Murphy  Bros,  and  Mor- 
gan. 

Lawrence    &   Comstock... 

Bert  Berry  

Shaver  Lake  Pishing  Club 
Deer  Creek  Pish  and 
Game   Protective   Asso- 
ciation. 
T.  A.   Chatten 

W.   A.   Sperry : 

Robert  Belden  

Euell  Gray  


Dr.     C.     S.     Noble     and 

others. 
A.  D.   Shepard 

Pacific  Gas   and   Electric 

Company. 
Yosemite  Valley  Railway 

Company. 
Major  Wm.  W.   Forsyth. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
deliveiT. 


July 


18,000      SuUaway,   Big  Spring  Creek  and  North  Fork 
of  Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou  County. 

6,000      Battle  Creek,  Tehama  Coimty July 

36,000       Barren  Lakes  of  High  Sierra,  Madera  County  !  July 


9,000      Longley,  Horton,  Birch  creeks  and  Middle  and 
South  Forks  of  Bishop  Creek,  Inyo  County. 

3,000      Wyman  and  Crooked  creeks,  Inyo  County 

27,000  Baker,  Big  Pine,  Little  Pine,  Birch  and  Tin- 
nemaha  creeks,  Big  Pine  Lakes  and  Red 
Moimtain  Lakes,  Inyo  County. 

9,000      Little  Truckee  River,  Nevada  County 

18,000       South  Yuba  River,  Placer  County 

6,000  I    Walker  River.    Mono   County 

6,000  I    South  Fork  Yuba  River,  Placer  County 

18,000  :    Tributary  to  Webber  Lake,  Nevada  Coimty... 

12,000       Pilot  and  Bear  creeks.  El  Dorado  County 

6,000  !    Mokelumne  and  Bear  rivers  and  South   Fork 

Cosumnes  River,   Amador  Coimty. 
12,000  '    Indian,   Reddings,  Browns,   East  Weaver  and 
Rush  creeks,  Trinity  County. 

12,000       Island  Lake,   Siskiyou  Coimty 

15,000       Woodruth  and  Rock  creeks  and  North,   East 
and  South  Forks  Yuba  River,  Sierra  County, 
5,000       Rubicon  River  and  Rock  Bound  Lake,  El  Do- 
rado County. 
12,500       Echo  and  Adrian  lakes   and  American  River, 
El  Dorado  County. 
6,000      Glen     Alpine    Creek     and     Grass,     Susie    and 
Heather  lakes.  El  Dorado  County. 

9,000      Echo  Lake,  El  Dorado  County. 

15,000  [    Witches'  Cave  and  Floating  Island,  Cathedral, 
I       Upper    and    Lower   Angora   lakes    and    Glen 
I       Alpine  Creek,  El  Dorado  County. 
17,500       Chpper,    Wolf,    Rattlesnake,    Dry,    Squirrel, 

Nigger  and  Slate  creeks,  Nevada  County. 
12,500      Bear,   Hawk,    Richardson   and  Granite  lakes. 

El  Dorado  County. 
9,000       Floating  Island  and  Angora  lakes.  El  Dorado 
County. 

7,500      Poro   Creek,    Tulare  County 

35,000      Shaver  Lake,  Fresno  County 

5,000      North  and  South  Deer  creeks,  Tulare  County.. 


7,500      Eagle    Creek,     Kaweah    Creek    and    Franklin 

Lake,  Tulare  County. 
5,000      Grizzly     Creek     and     Clover    Valley,     Plumas 
Coimty. 

9,000       Entire  shipment  lost  because  of  lack  of  care 

15,000       Cody,  Right,  Doik,  Blood,  Succor,  Echo  and 
Adrian  lakes  and  American  River,  El  Dorado 
County. 
5,000      Lopez,  Arroyo  Grande  and  Tar  Spring  creeks, 
San  Luis  Obispo  County. 

20,000       Castle  Lake,   Siskiyou  County 

30,000       Lakes  Spaulding  and  Fordyce,  Placer  County.. 

60,000      Merced  River,  Merced  County 

20,000      Merced  River,   Mariposa  County 


July 

July 
July 


August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 

August 

August 
September 

September 

September 

September 

September 
September 

September 

September 

September 

September 
September 
September 

September 

September 

September 
September 

September 

September 
September 

September 

September- 


5—2956 


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REPORT   OF   BOARD   OP   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Loch  Leven  Tkout — Continued. 


Applicant. 

Number. 

Waters  stocked. 

Month  of 
delivery. 

Jas    A.  Vale                   

50,000 

5,000 
7,500 
5,000 

40,000 
7,500 
9,000 

30,000 
35,000 

20,000 

43,000 

10,000 

Lytle,    Devoir,    Cable,    City,    Plunge,    Bear, 
Mill,  Salfrit,   Creeley,  Deep,  Huston,  Grass 
Valley,  Little  Bear  and  Hook  and  Holcomb 
creeks    and   Devil   and   Waterman   canyons, 
San  Bernardino  County. 

Pauma  Creek,  San  Diego  County    

October 

B     L     Crise 

October 

Ed.    Fletcher  

W.   C.  Davidson ... 

San  Luis  Rey  River,  San  Diego  Comity 

Garcia  River  and  Saunders  Creek,  Mendocino 

County. 
Cold  Creek,  Siskiyou  County 

October 
October 

Chas.   Wright  .—        .    - 

October 

Otas   E.    Pile 

Butte  Creek  and  Oris  Lake,  Siskiyou  County. . 
Back  Fence,  Kangaroo,  Bull  and  Secret  lakes, 

Siskiyou  County. 
Wagon  Creek,   Siskiyou  County  -    - 

October 

CM.  Parker 

Fred.    Sullaway          -  -_  _ 

October 
October 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 

Big   Spring   Creek   at   Rupps   Lake,    Siskiyou 

County. 
Headwaters      Sacramento      River,      Siskiyou 

County. 
Sacramento  River  at  Delta,  Shasta  County... 

Held  in  hatchery  ponds,  Sisson. 

October 
October 
October 

Total 

1,293,500 

REPORT   OP   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND   GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


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SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distriiution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Eastern  Brook  Trout. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


J.    M.    Little-.-.- 

H.    C.    Chamberlain   and 

associates. 
W.   O.  Robinson 


G.    O.    Longhurst. 
M.   A.    Bernheim.. 


Portola  Improvement  As- 
sociation. 
.Smith   &  Weil 

Taylorsville  Gun  Club — 

Quincy  Gun  Club 


A.   Machomich 


Chas.    Geisendorfer 
W.   J.   McCleary 


Samuel  Mitchell 

Boca   Mill   Company. 
P.   M.   Rutherford— 


W.   P.  Whittier. 


North    Fork    Game    Pro- 
tective Association. 

J.  F.  Geisendorfer 

J.  B.  Knapp 


H.  M.  Freeman 

A.    S.    Nichols 

Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and 
Transportation  Co. 

Grover  Russi  

North    Pork    Game   Pro- 
tective Association. 
Nevada  City  Hunting  and 
Fishing   Club. 

C.    P.    Hensel 

E.  Meybem 

■Ocean    Shore    Railroad 
Company. 

Chas.  H.  Glenn 


Phil  T.    Laugenour 

H.    H.   Zimmerman 

Mrs.   Geo.    Parley,   Jr 

B.  G.  Dichman 

Sierra  and  San  Francisco 

Power   Company. 
Geo.    P.   Conlin- 


G.  W.  Vestal- 


V\'.-  M.  McCleary- 

W.  .J.  Hall 

H.  Wilkie 

Miss  Katherine  Chandler. 


6,000 
18,000 

18,000 

6,000 
12,000 

9,000 

6,000 
12,000 

12,000 


6,000 

6,000 
9,000 

6,000 
10,000 
20,000 

12,000 

12,000 

6,000 
18,000 

24,000 
12,000 
24,000 

18,000 
18,000 

39,000 

12,000 

12,000 

6,000 


18,000 

18,000 
12,000 
18,000 
12,000 

18,0U0 

12,000 
9,000 

9,000 

6,000 
12,000 
12,000 


Month  of 
delivery. 


Rich  Gulch  and  Rush  Creek,  Plumas  County-. 
Homer  Lake,  Long  Valley  reservoir  and  Wolf 

Creek,  Plumas  County. 
Bear,    Buck,    Mill,    Big,    Clear,    Rock,    Silver 

and  Grizzly  creeks,  Plumas  County. 

Poplar  and  Miller  creeks,  Plumas  County 

Eureka,   Grass,  Jamison  and  Rock  lakes  and 

Jamison   Creek,   Plumas  County. 
Willow,  Humbug  and  Grizzly  creeks,  Plumas 

County. 
Mill  Creek  and  Three  Lakes,  Plumas  County- 
Lights,    Cooks,    Indian    and    Grizzly    creeks, 

Plumas   County. 
Spanish,    Rock,    Mill,    Clear,    Greenhorn    and 

Taylor    creeks    and    Middle    Fork    Feather 

River,   Plimias  County. 
Feather    River,    Sulphur    and   Willow    creeks, 

Plumas  County. 

Catfish  Creek,  Placer  County 

Combs    Ravine    and    Bunch    Canyon,    Placer 

County. 
Bear  River  and  Canyon  Creek,  Placer  County 

Little  Truckee  River,  Nevada  County 

Truekee  River,  SchafTer  and  Alder  creeks,  Ne- 
vada County. 
Warmeastle  Canyon,  Squaw  and  Snell  creeks, 

Siskiyou  County. 
Gass   Canyon    Creek   and   Dry    Creek,    Placer 

County. 
Headwaters  of  Wooley  Creek,  Placer  County 
Canyon    Creek    and    North    Fork    American 

River,  Placer  County. 

South  Yuba  River,  Placer  County 

Feather  River,    Sierra   County 

Blackwood  Creek  and  Truckee  River,    Placer 

County. 

Prosser    Creek,    Nevada   Cotmty 

North  and  Middle  Porks  American  River,  Owl 

and  Grass  Canyon  creeks,  Placer  County. 
Deer,    Rock,    Little    Deer   creeks    and    Woods 

Ravine,   Nevada  County. 

North  Pork  Elder  Creek,  Tehama  Coimty 

Butte   Creek,    Butte   County 

Pedro,    Tunitas,    Frenchman,     Higgins,     Lo- 

bitos    and    Purissima    creeks,     San    Mateo 

County. 
Mill    Creek    and    South,    Middle    and    North 

Porks  Stony  Creek,  Colusa  County. 

Cache  and  AUen  creeks,  Yolo  County 

Mill  Creek,   Tehama   County 

Kelsey   Creek,    Lake    County 

Clear  Creek,  Napa  County 

Indian    and    Clarks   creeks    and   Middle   Pork 

Stanislaus  River,  Tuolumne  County. 
South     Fork     Stanislaus     River,     Tuolumne 

County. 
South     Fork     Cottonwood     Creek,     Tehama 

County. 

Shirttail   Canyon,    Placer   County 

Bear  River,    Placer   County 

Prosser   Creek,    Nevada    County 

Five   Lakes,    Bear   and   Squaw  creeks.    Placer 

County. 


May 
May 

May 

May 
May 

May 

May 
May 

May 


May 

June 
June 

June 
June 
June 

June 

June 

June 
June 

June 
June 
June 

June 
June 

June 

June 
June 
June 


June 

June 
June 
June 
June 
July 

July 

July 

July 
July 
July 
July 


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REPORT    OF    BOARD    OF    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

FisJi  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

DiSTRiBUTiox  OF  EASTERN   Brook   Trout — Continued. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Glen    Alpine    Springs 
Company. 

XI  Tahoe  Company 

Mrs.   G.   W.   Kenney 

Lawrence   &   Comstock... 

Tahoe   "Vista    Investment 

Company. 
H.    E.   Cagwin 


Santa  Clara  County  Tish 
and  Game  Protective 
Association. 

Frank  P.  Cady - 

F.  D.   Hall 

Wm.  E.  Vincent 

Chas.  W.   Williams 

Geo.   D.    Campbell 

L.  H.   Sisson 

E.    E.    Archer 

I.  Lauer 

Sisson  Promotion  Asso- 
ciation. 

Geo.    Neale  

W.   P.   Yaney 

A.    L.    Stewart 

Hall  &  McAfee 

Harry  Shaw 

R.   G.   Buchanan 

J.    S.    Cain 

North  Fork  Association.. 

A.   G.   McFarland 

Webber  Lake  Club 

J.   E.  Powell 

C.  W.   Rickey 

G.  P.  Zentgrafl 

Jas.  Bryson 

Grass  Valley  Sportsmen's 

Club. 
A.  D.  Ferguson 

Deer  Creek  Fish  and 
Game  Protective  Asso- 
ciation. 

W.   A.   Sperry 


Tosemite  Valley  Railroad 

Company. 
Major  Wm.  W.   Forsyth. 
W.    C.  Davidson 

Chas.  Wright  

Total  


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
delivery. 


9,000      Susie  Lake,   El  Dorado   County t  July 


6,000  j    Trout  and  Cold  creeks.  El  Dorado  County. 


6,000 
18,000 

9,000 

9,000 

36,000 

7,500 

5,000 
2,500 
2,500 
2,500 
2,500 
5,000 
2,500 
15,000 

6,000 
18,000 

9,000 
30,000 

12,000 
3,000 
6,000 
9,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
6,000 
7,500 

20,000 

30,000 

5,000 

5,000 


July 


Independence  Lake,  Nevada  County July 

Small  lakes  and  streams  near  Tallac,  El  Do-  !  July 

rado  County.  I 

Griff    Creek,    Placer    County i  July 

i 
Upper    and    Lower    Echo    lakes.    El    Dorado  [  July 

Coimty. 
Distributed  in  streams  of  Santa  Clara  County  |  July 


Susan  River,  Silver  and  Caribou  lakes,  Lassen 

Coimty. 

Willow    Creek    Lassen    County 

Secret  Creek,    Lassen   County 

Parker   Creek,    Modoc   County 

East  Creek,   Modoc  County 

South  Fork  Mill  Creek,   Modoc  County 

Shealds  Creek,  Modoc  County 

Pine  Creek,   Modoc  County 

SuUaway,  Big  Spring  creeks  and  North  Fork 

Sacramento  River,   Siskiyou  County. 

Battle   Creek,   Tehama   County 

Longley,  Horton  and  Birch  creeks  and  Middle 

and  South  Forks  Bishop  creek,  Inyo  County. 

Wyman  and  Crooked  creeks,  Inyo  County 

Baker,    Big   Pine,    Little    Pine,    Birch,    Tinne- 

maha    creeks.     Big    Pine    Lakes     and    Red 

Mountain    Lakes,    Inyo    County. 

Dexter   Creek,    Inyo    County 

Walker  River,  Mono  Coimty 

Walker  River,  Mono  County 

North  Fork  American  River,  Placer  County..- 

South  Fork  Yuba  River,  Placer  County 

Tributary  of  Webber  Lake,  Nevada  County.. 
Walker  River  and  Lost  Canyon,  Mono  County 
Walker  River  and  Big  Slough,  Mono  County.. 

Pilot  and  Bear  creeks.  El  Dorado  County 

Echo   and  Adrian   lakes   and  American   River, 

El  Dorado  County. 
Clipper,    Wolf,    Rattlesnake,    Dry,    Squirrel, 

Nigger  and  Slate  creeks,  Nevada  County. 
Six  unnamed  lakes  in  High  Sierras  of  Fresno 

County. 
North  and  South  Deer  creeks,  Tulare  County 


Grizzly  Creek  and  Clover  Valley  creek,  Plumas 
County. 
10,000  I    Merced  River,  Mariposa  County 


10,000  I    Merced  River,  Mariposa  County 

5,000  I    Garcia  River  and  Saimders  Creek,   Mendocino 

County. 
10,000       Cold    Creek,    Siskiyou    Coimty 

17,500  !    Held  in  hatchery  ponds,  Sisson. 


906,000 


July 

July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 

July 
July 

July 
July 


July 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 

August 


August 

September 

September 
October 

October 


REPORT   OP    BOARD   OP   PISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS, 


69 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 
Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

DiSTKIBUTION    OF    RAINBOW    TrOUT. 


Month  of 

Applicant. 

Xumber. 

Waters  stocked. 

delivery. 

J      McCllLQff 

12,000 
30,000 

Berrv    Creek,    Plumas   County 

May 

K.  E.  Gerry 

North  Pork  Feather  River,   Plumas  County.-- 

May 

R.    Belden  

6,000 

Indian  and  Yellow  creeks,  Plumas  County 

May 

J.    M.    Little 

6,000 

Rich  Gulch  and  Rush  Creek,  Plumas  County. _ 

May 

-T     O,     Dnnnpllv 

3  000 

rTri77lv    Creek     Plumas    Countv                        

May 

H.    0.    Chamberlain  and 

24,000 

Homer  Lake,  Long  Valley  reservoir  and  Wolf 

May 

associates. 

Creek,  Pluma.s  County. 

W.     0.     Robinson     and 

51,000 

Bear,    Birch,    Mill,    Big,    Clear,   Rock,    Silver 

May 

others. 

and  Grizzly  creeks,  Plumas  County. 

G.    C.    Longhurst 

6,000 

Poplar  and  Miller  creeks,  Plumas  County 

May 

M.   H.   Bernheim 

12,000 

Eureka,   Grass,   Jamison  and  Rock  lakes  and 
Jamison   Creek,    Plumas   County. 

May 

Portola  Improvement  As- 

12,000 

Willow,  Humbug  and  Grizzly  creeks,   Plumas 

May 

sociation. 

Comity. 

R.   Van  der  Naillen 

9,000 

Yellow  and  Butte  creeks,  Plumas  County 

May 

Smith   &  Weil 

18,000 

Mill  Creek  and  Three  Lakes,  Plumas  County- 

May 

Taylorsville  Gun  Club 

24,000 

Lights,    Cooks,    Indian    and    Grizzly    creeks, 
Plumas  County. 

May 

(t      TT      OoofJhnA 

30,000 
54,000 

Tnrlifln   Oreek     Plumas   Countv               -_    _- 

May 

Quincy  Gun  Club 

Spanish,    Rush,    Mill,    Clear,    Greenhorn    and 

May 

Taylor    creeks,    and    Middle    Fork    Feather 

River,   Plumas  County. 

T    A    Church 

12,000 
12,000 

Long  Valley  Creek,   Plumas  County 

May 

C  N.  Johnson  . 

Feather    River    and    Smith     Creek,     Plumas 
Coimty. 

May 

A.  Maehomich 

18,000 

Feather    River,    Sulphur    and    Willow   creeks, 
Plumas  Coimty. 

May 

Wm.  Galleppl  estate 

12,000 

Last  Chance  Valley  creeks,  Plumas  Coimty 

May 

Chas.  Geisendorfer 

6,000 

Catfish   Creek,    Placer   County 

June 

W.   J.    McCleary 

6,000 

Bunch    Canyon    and    Combs    Ravine,    Placer 

June 

County. 

Samuel  Mitchell               .  _ 

9,000 
68,500 
10,000 

Bear  River  and  Canyon  Creek,  Placer  County 

June 

Boca   Mill   Company 

F.    M.   Rutherford 

June 

Truckee    River,     Schaffer    and    Alder    creeks, 

June 

Nevada  County. 

Sierra  Nevada  Wood  and 
Lumber  Company. 

40,000 

Prnc?<?pr   Oreek     Nevada   Countv     _            _- 

June 

S     McKav 

25,000 
35,000 
24,000 

Donner  Creek,  Nevada  County -- 

June 

G     P.    Kelly 

Truckee  River  and  tributaries,  Nevada  County 
Warmeastle  Canyon,   Squaw  Creek   and  Snell 
Creek,    Siskiyou  County. 

June 

W.   F    Whittier    _. 

June 

McCloud  River  Railroad— 
W     I     Bray 

60,000 
30,000 
30,000 

MeCloud    River     Siskivou    Countv  -  - 

June 

Antelope  Creek,   Siskiyou   County --  - 

June 

Siskiyou  County  Electric 
Light  and  Power  Com- 

Pall  Creek     Siskivou   Countv    --      

June 

pany. 

Z.  Abrams 

Geo.  Dennis  

18,000 
60,000 

Abrams   Lake.    Siskivou  Countv 

June 

Big  Springs,    Siskiyou  County 

June 

H.  R.  Hanley 

18,000 

Squaw  Creek,    Shasta   County 

June 

North    Pork    Game    Pro- 

12,000 

Grass  Canyon  and  Dry  creeks,  Placer  County 

June 

tective  Association. 

Clark  &  Branson 

30,000 

French,   Payne's,   Etna  and  Patterson  creeks 
Siskiyou  County. 

June 

J.  P.  Geisendorfer 

6,000 

Headwaters  Wooley  Creek,  Placer  County 

June 

Dr.   W.   M.  Tryon 

J.   B.   Knapp--- — 

6,000 
6,000 

Green   Vallev   Creek.    Placer   Countv  -        -- 

Jime 

Canyon    Creek    and    North    Fork    American 

June 

River,   Placer  County. 

TT       M       FrpPTiTflTi 

42,000 
24,000 
48,000 

South    Yuba   River     Placer  Countv - 

June 

A     S     Nichols 

Feather   River,    Sierra   County -  - 

June 

Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and 

Blackwood  Creek  and  Truckee  River,    Placer 

June 

Transportation  Co. 

Coimty. 

Harmon  Bell 

36,000 
30,000 

Sweetbriar  Creek,   Shasta   County —    - 

June 

Battle  Creek,  Shasta  County -- 

June 

18,000 
60,000 

Mud  Creek,   Butte  County    -  -    - 

June 

Nevada  City  Hunting  and 

Deer,    Rock,    Little   Deer    and   Woods    ravine 

June 

Pishing  Club. 

creeks,  Nevada  County. 

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REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distnbution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Rainbow  Trout — Continued. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
delivery. 


F.  G.  Brown 

Meek    Mercantile    Com- 
pany. 
L.   Y.    Coggins 

E.    C.    Lloyd 

H.  H.  Hudson 

California  Fish  and 
Game  Commission. 

Kennett  Athletic  Club 

C.    L.   Watson 

J.    H.    Bradley 

E.  Meybem  

A.    C.   Musselman 


24,000  I    Oregon    Creek,    Sierra   County June 

36,000      Oregon  Creek,  Yuba  County !  June 


W.    J.   Whittier. 


B.  F.  Kaufman. 
P.  H.  Dunbar- - 
Clay  Buchanan  . 


Elizabeth  G.  Stevenson... 

Santa  Clara  Co.  Fish  and 
Game  Protective  Asso- 
ciation. 

J.  H.  Livermore 

Ocean  Shore  Railroad 
Company. 


J.   Boshofl  

J.    A.    Owen 

Chas.  H.  Glenn. 


Phil.    T.    Laugenour 

Bartlett     Springs     Com- 
pany. 
Alameda    County    Fish 
and     Game    Protective 
Association. 


21,000 

3ti,000 

30,000 

300,000 

15,000 
30,000 
.  18,000 
24,000 
18,000 

60,000 

36,000 

30,000 

36,000 

12,000 
30,000 


0,000 
45,000 


60,000 

24,000 

30,000 

42,000 
30,000 

12,000 


Dobkins  Lake  and  North  Fork  Eddy  Creek,     June 
Siskiyou  County. 

Parks   Creek,    Siskiyou   Covmty i  June 

Little  Shasta  River,  Siskiyou  County \  June 

Klamath  River,  Siskiyou  County i  June 


Earle  Downing  

12,000 

Earle  Downing              _  ._ 

12,000 

Earle  Downing . 

36,000 

Earle  Downing              

24,000 

H.    H.    Zimmerman 

Fred  Werner       ..    ..    .. 

12,000 
18,000 
12,000 

Geo.    F.   Zentgraff 

M.    A.    Miller 

12,000 

W.   R.   Stearns.  .      

15,000 
30,000 

City  of  Vallejo . 

Mrs.  G€0.  Farley,  Jr 

John  P.   Orr 

Joshua  Spires .  .  .  . 

6,000 

9,000 

24,000 

Wm.    West    and    D.    S. 
Keyser. 

72,000 

Big  Backbone  Creek,   Shasta  County. 

Clear   Creek,    Shasta   County 

Antelope  Creek,  Tehama   County 

Butte  Creek,    Butte   County 

Little    Butte    and    Mosquito    creeks,     Butte 

County. 
West  branch   of  North   Fork  Feather  River, 

Butte  County. 
Little   West   branch   North   Fork  of   Feather 

River,   Butte  County. 
Big  Nimshew  and  west  branch  Feather  River 

Butte  County. 
Little  Nimshew,  Big  Nimshew  and  Last  Chance 

creeks,    Butte   County. 

Butte   Creek,    Butte   County 

Sweijert,     Almaden,     Guadalupe,     Penetentia 

and  Saratoga  creeks,  Santa  Clara  County. 

Bear  Gulch  Creek,  San  Mateo  County 

Pedro,  Timitas,  Frenchman  and  Higgins,  Lo- 

bitas,    and    Purissima    creeks,    San    Mateo 

County. 
Pescadero,    Butano    and    Gazos    creeks,    San 

Mateo   County. 
South     Fork     Cottonwood     Creek,     Tehama 

County. 
Mill    Creek    and    South,    Middle    and    North 

Forks  of  Stony  Creek,  Colusa  County. 

Cache  and  AUen  creeks,  Yolo  Cotinty 

Cache,  Bartlett,  Mill  and  Twin  Valley  creeks, 

Lake  County. 
Trout  Creek,  Alameda  County 


Stony   Brook   and   Alameda    Creek,    Alameda 

County. 
Tributaries   of  Valpe  and  Arroyo  Valle,    Ala- 
meda County. 
La  Costa,  Indian,  Alameda,  Bear  and  Apper- 

son  creeks,  Alameda  County. 
San    Lorenzo,    Bolinas    and   Palomar   creeks, 

Alameda  County. 

Mill  Creek,   Tehama   County 

Sutter  Creek,  Amador  County 

South     Fork    American     River,     El    Dorado 

County. 
South     Fork    American     River,     El    Dorado 

County. 

Sonoma   Creek,    Sonoma   Coimty 

Lake  No.  2  and  in  creek  between  Dam  No.  1 

and  Dam  No.  2,   Solano  County. 

Kelsey   Creek,    Lake   County. 

Soscol  Creek,   Napa   County 

Mario,  Spiguet  and  Big  Canyon  creeks,  Lake 

County. 
Milliken   Creek,    Napa    County 


Jvme 
June 
June 
Jtme 
June 

June 

June 

June 

June 

Jime 
June 


June 
Jvme 


June 

June 

Jtme 

June 
June 

June 

June 

June 

June 

June 

July 
July 
July 

July 

July 
July 

July 
July 
July 

July 


REPORT   OF    BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


71 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

DiSTBiBUTiON  OF  RAINBOW  Trout — Continued. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
delivery. 


B.    G.    Dichman 

Sierra  and  San  Francisco 

Power  Company. 
Geo.    F.   Conlin 

R.   B.   Shaw  and  H.   M. 

De  Ferrari. 
J.  O.  Bigelow 

D.  E.    Roberts 

F.  L.  Dimoek 

G.  W.  Vestal 

S.    V.    Baron 

E.  W.  Elfendalil 

Dr.    Wm.   Tryon 

W.  J.  HaU 

W.  C.  Murdoch 

Miss  Katlierine  Chandler. _ 

Glen   Alpine   Springs 
Company. 

Al  Tahoe  Company 

Mrs.   G.  W.   Kenney. 

Lawrence  &  Comstoek 

Tahoe   Vista    Investment 

Company. 
H.  E.  Cagwin 


Santa  Clara  County  Fish 
and  Game  Protective 
Association. 

John  L.  D.  Roberts 


Dan  McCloskey  _ 

H.  G.  Porter 

H.  L.  Beecroft-- 
Frank  P.   Cady- 


F.   D.   Hall 

Wm.   E.  Vincent 

Dr.  C.  M.  Tinsman_ 
Chas.  W.  Williams.. 
Geo.   D.    Campbell... 

ly.  H.  Sisson 

Wm.  W.  Ahl 

E.  E.  Auble 

I.  Lauer 

C.  W.  WiUiams 

W.  L.  Leland 


S.   F.  Ballard.. 

Ira  Hansen 

H.  O.  Wickes__ 
A.  F.  St  oner.. 
W.  A.  Wirth... 
Hall  &  McAfee. 


Sisson    Promotion    Asso- 
ciation. 

Geo.    Neale  

W.  B.  Engle — 


9,000 
42,000 

36,000 

24,000 

24,000 
36,000 


36,000 
9,000 

24,000 
30,000 
6,000 
12,000 
21,000 
12,000 

15,000 

12,000 

18,000 

6,000 

9,000 

12,000 

114,000 


72,000 

18,000 

27,000 

6,000 

15,000 

5,000 
7,500 

15,000 
7,500 
5,000 
5,000 

10,000 

10,000 
7,500 

25,000 
7,500 

10,000 
7,500 
36,000 
24,000 
45,000 
21,000 

75,000 

12,000 
39,000 


Clear  Creek,   Napa   County ..-'  July 

Indian    and    Clarks   creeks    and   Middle   Fork     July 

Stanisalus  River,  Tuolumne  County. 
South     Fork     Stanislaus     River,      Tuolumne     July 

Cotmty. 
South    and    Middle    Forks    Tuolumne    River,     July 

Tuolumne  County. 

Basin  Creek,   Tuolumne  County July 

North    Fork    Stanislaus    River,    Beaver,    San     July 

Antone     and      O'Neal      creeks,      Calaveras 

County. 

Sacramento  River,   Shasta   Cotmty July 

South     Fork     Cottonwood     Greek,     Tehama     July 

County. 

Mill  Creek,  Tehama  County July 

Slate  Creek,   Shasta  County July 

Green  Valley  Creek,   Placer  County July 

Bear  River,   Placer  Coimty July 

Tributary  of  Webber  Lake,  Sierra  County July 

Five   Lakes,   Bear   and   Squaw  creeks.    Placer     July 

County. 
Susie   Lake,    El  Dorado   County ;  July 

Trout  and  Cole  creeks,   El  Dorado  County !  July 

Independence  Lake,  Nevada  Coimty \  July 

Small  lakes  and  streams  near  Tallac,  El  Do-  |  July 

rado  County. 
Griff   Creek,   Placer   County 1  July 

Upper    and    Lower    Echo    lakes,    El    Dorado  \  July 

County. 
Planted  in  the  streams  of  Santa  Clara  County  j  July 


The  moimtain  and  coast  streams  of  Monterey 

County. 
Dos  Picachos,   Bird  and  Los  Muertos  creeks, 

San  Benito  County. 

North  Fork  Feather  River,  Plumas  County 

Grizzly  Creek,  Ice  Lake,   Plumas  County 

Susan    River    and   Silver   and    Caribou   lakes, 

Lassen   County. 

Willow    Creek,    Lassen    County 

Secret  Creek,    Lassen  Covinty 

Ash  Creek,   Modoc  County 

Parker   Creek,   Modoc  County 

East  Creek,   Modoc  County 

South  Fork  Mill  Creek,  Modoc  Coimty 

Pitzhugh   Creek,   Modoc   Oormty 

Fitzhugh  Creek,   Modoc  County 

Pine  Creek,   Modoc  County 

South  Fork  Pitt  River,  Modoc  Cormty 

Antelope,    Bottle   and   Willow   creeks,    Modoc 

County. 

Thomas  Creek,   Modoc  Coimty 

Parker   Creek,    Modoc   County... 

Sacramento   River,   Shasta  County 

Tejon    Creek,    Kern   County 

North  Fork  Kern  River,   Kern  County. — 

Baker,  Big  Pine,  Little  Pine,  Birch  and  Tin- 

nemaha    creeks.    Big    Pine    Lake    and    Red 

Mountain  lakes,  Inyo  County. 
SuUaway   and  Big  Spring  creeks,    and  North 

Pork  Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou  Coimty. 

Battle  Creek,   Tehama   County 

Shepherds  Creek,   Inyo   County 


July 

July 

July 
July 
July 

July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 

July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 


July 

July 
July 


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REPORT   OF   BOARD   OP   PISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribittion,  Heason  1912. 

DisTKiBUTiON  or  RAINBOW  Tkout — Continued. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Mouth  of 
delivery. 


Mrs.   M.  A.   Bruley 

A.  Davies ^- 

R.   G.   Buchanan 

J.  S.  Cain 

North  Fork  Association. 

A.   G.   McFarland 

Webber  Lake  Club 

J.   E.   Powell 

C.   W.   Rickey 

Euel!  Gray 


J.   M.   Aiiiick. 
C.  S.  Wilson. 


J.  W.  Metcalf 

F.    0.    Branstetter. 
D.    E.   Roberts 


I.    O.    Jillson. 


California      Door      Com- 
pany. 

James  Dodds  

Geo.  E.  King 

R.  Colwell  

Glen  Alpine  Springs  Com- 
pany. 

Mayo  A.  Greenlaw 

W.  W.   Price 


Grass  Valley  Sportsmen's 

Club. 
Lawrence  &  Comstock 

Bert  Berry — 

Widgeon  Gun   Club 

John  Fitzpatrick 

Porterville  Fish  and  Game 
Protective  Association. 
Deer  Creek  Fish  and 
Game   Protective   Asso- 
ciation. 
T.  A.   Chatten 


H.   G.   McCaughey. 

O.  G.  Bolsdorflf 

W.  A.   Sperry 


Con  Roman  

W.  A.  Jinkerson. 


E.  A.  Pearce 

Monterey  Fish  and  Game 
Protective  Association. 

S.    E.    Whitcher 

J.  H.  Hollister 


18,000  j    Sacramento  River,  Shasta  County 

9,000       Little  Truckee  River,  Nevada  County 

6,000       Walker  River,   Mono   Coimty 

12,000       W'alker  River,    Mono   County 

24,000       North  Fork  American  River,  Placer  Coimty— 

12,000       South  Fork  Yuba  River,  Placer  County 

12,000       Tributary  Webber   Lake,   Nevada   County 

6,000      Walker  River  and  Lost  Canyon,  Mono  County 
6,000      Walker  River  and  Big  Slough,  Mono  County. 

72,000  Silver,  Sly,  Park  and  Alder  creeks,  Ogilvie 
Canyon  and  American  River,  El  Dorado 
County. 

18,000       Mokelumne  and  Bear  rivers   and  South  Fork 
I       Cosumnes,  Amador  County. 

18,000  '  Indian,  Reddings,  Browns,  East  Weaver  and 
Rush  creeks,  Trinity  County. 

60,000  j    Sacramento  River,    Shasta   County 

36,000  I    Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou  County 

30,000  i    Middle     Fork     Calaveras     River,     Calaveras 
i        County. 

2i,000  \    Crystal,   Willow  and  Clear  creeks  and  Klines 
i        Gulch,  Shasta  County. 

15,000  I  North  and  Middle  Forks  Cosumnes  River, 
Steeley  Fork,  Middle,  McKinney's,  Dog  Town 
and  Cut  creeks.  El  Dorado  County. 

18,000  El  Dorado,  Black,  Secret  and  Humbug  can- 
yons. Placer  Coimty. 

15,000  Woodruth  and  Rock  creeks  and  North,  East 
and  South  Forks  of  North  Yuba  River, 
Sierra  County. 

12,000  Rubicon  River  and  Rock  Bound  Lake,  El  Do- 
rado County. 

15,000       Glen    Alpine    Creek    and    Grass,     Susie    and 

Heather  lakes,   El  Dorado  County. 
9,000       Echo   Lake,   El  Dorado   County •. 

12,000  Witches  Cave  and  Floating  Island,  Cathedral, 
Upper  and  Lower  Angora  lakes  and  Glen 
Alpine  Greek,  El  Dorado  County. 

60,000       Clipper,    Wolf,    Rattlesnake,    Dry,    Squirrel, 
Nigger  and  Slate  creeks,   Nevada   County. 
9,000      Floating  Island  and  Angora  lakes.  El  Dorado 

Coimty. 
9,000      Poro  Creek,   Tulare  County 

42,000       Kaweah   River,    Tulare   County 

18,000       San  Benito   Creek,   Fresno   County 

72,000  Redwood,  Kessing,  Belnap,  Boulder  and  Mc- 
Intyre  creeks,  Tulare  County. 

24,000      North  and  South  Deer  creeks,  Tulare  County.. 


27,000       Eagle  Creek,  East  Fork  Kaweah  and  Franklin 
lakes,  Tulare  County. 

24,000      Salmon   Creek,   Sonoma  County 

27,000       Russian  River,   Sonoma  County 

18,000      Grizzly     Creek    and     Clover    Valley,     Plumas 

County. 
6,000      Cheda  Creek,  Marin  County 

30,000       North,    Middle    and    South    Forks    Cosumnes 

River,   El  Dorado  County. 
9,000       San  Juan  Canyon  Creek,  San  Benito  County. 
30,000       Rocky,   Mill,   Miller,    Garapatas   and  Cocaga- 

hua  creeks,   Monterey  County. 

24,000       Arroyo   Seco,    Monterey   County 

60,000      Upper  San  Luis,  Torro,   Marro,  San  Luisito, 

Charro,    Corral    de    Piedra,    See    Canyon, 

Coon   and  Welsh   creeks,    San   Luis   Obispo 

County. 


August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 


August 

August 

August 
August 
August 

August 

August 

August 
August 

August 

August 

August 
August 

August 

August 

September 
September 
September 
September 

September 

September 

September 
September 
September 

September 
September 

September 
September 

September 
September 


REPORT   OP   BOARD   OP   PISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


73 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Rainbow  Trout — Continued. 


Applicant. 

Number. 

Waters  stocked. 

Month  of 
delivery. 

Dr.     C.     S.     Noble     and 

others. 
H.   J.  Abels 

H.   J.   Doulton...  .        

24,000 

15,000 

30,000 

9,OC0 

96,000 

24,000 
78,000 
24,000 
21,000 

18,000 

24,000 
12,000 

45,000 
120,000 

12,000 
15,000 

105,000 
12,000 
12,000 
21,000 

6,000 
15,000 

18,000 
12,000 
24,000 

9,000 

9,000 

9,000 

18,000 

50,000 
18,000 
30,000 
24,000 
12,000 
30,000 

75,000 

24,000 
214,670 

78,000 

30,000 
50,000 
25,000 
75,000 

Lopez,  Arroyo  Grande  and  Tar  Spring  creeks, 
San  Luis  Obispo  County. 

Sisquoc    and    Manzana    rivers    and    Birabut 
creek,   Santa  Barbara   County. 

Santa  Ynez  River  and  tributaries,  Santa  Bar- 
bara County. 

Rincon,   Gilis   and  Bloodo  creeks,   Santa  Bar- 
bara County. 

Coyote  Creek,  Ventura  River  and  North  Fork 
San  Antonio  Creek,  Ventura  Comity. 

Trinity   River,    Trinity   County 

September 
September 
September 

H.    S.    Deaderifk-_ 

September 

Jas.  Rasniussen  and  Sim 

Myers. 
C.  E.  Carr .    .  .    . 

September 
October 

Yosemite  Valley  Railroad 

Merced  River,    Merced   County 

October 

Major  Wm.  W.  Forsyth. 
W.  M.   Avis -  -    -- 

Merced  River,   Mariposa  County 

San  Dimas,  Wolfskill  and  Palmer  canyons  and 
Recreation  Run,  Los  Angeles  County. 

Bear  and  Ice  House  canyons  and  San  .4ntonio 
River,  Los  Angeles  County. 

Malibu  Creek,   Los  Angeles  County.      .. 

October 
October 

W.    J.    Sanborn 

October 

E    D    Silent 

October 

Geo.  E.  Little 

Rio  Hondo  and  San  Jose  creeks,  Los  Angeles 
County. 

San  Antonio  Creek,  Los  Angeles  County 

Lytle,    Devoir,    Cable,    City,    Plunge,    Bear, 
Mill,  Salfrit,  Creeley,  Huston,  Grass  Valley, 
Little    Bear,    Hook,    Deep,    and    Holcomb 
creeks    and    Devil    and   Waterman   canyons, 
San  Bernardino  County. 

Strawberry   Creek,   Riverside  County    ..      . 

October 

W.  G.  Kerckhofl 

October 

Jas.  A.   Vale 

October 

Stroner   &  Dickenson 

October 

John  Shaver     

South   and  North   Forks   San   Jacinto   River, 
Riverside  County. 

San  Gabriel  River,  Los  Angeles  County — 

Big  Tejunga  Creek,   Los  Angeles  County 

Ouminings    Greek,    Kern    Gnimty 

October 

H.  W.  O'Melveney 

Will  E.  Chapin 

Albert   Gnmmings 

October 
October 
October 

Webb  Toms                    

Santa      Isabel,      Cedar,      Cottonwood     and 
Boulder  creeks,   San  Diego   County. 

Whitewater  Creek,  San  Bernardino  County 

San  Juan,  Mission,  Viejo  and  San  Juan  Hot 
Springs  creeks.  Orange  County. 

Pauma  Creek,   San  Diego  County... 

Topango  Creek,   Los  Angeles  County    

October 

Jas.  A.  Vale 

F.  A.  Forster— 

B.  L.  Crise  .    .. 

October 
October 

October 

H    I.  Pritehard 

October 

W.   K.   Robinson    .- 

Tobacco,     Santiago     and     Silverado     creeks. 
Orange  County. 

Cold  Water  Canyon,  Riverside  County 

Malibu  Canyon,    Riverside   County 

October 

A.  Stacy — 

October 

E.  B.  Collier 

October 

Ed.  Fletcher 

W.   0.   Davidson 

Chas.  Wright     

San  Luis  Rey  River,  San  Diego  County 

Garcia  River  and  Saunders  Creek,  Mendocino 

County. 
Cold  Creek,   Siskiyou  County      .    

October 
October 

October 

Otas  E.  Pile 

A.   D.   Shepard 

Forest  Service 

J.  N.  Dobkins 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 
Fish  and  Game  Commis- 

Butte Creek  and  Oris  Lake,  Siskiyou  County.. 

Soda  Creek,   Shasta   County 

Pilgrim  Creek,   Siskiyou  Coxmty.. _ 

Shasta  River,   Siskiyou  County 

Big   Spring   Creek,    at   Rupps   Lake,    Siskiyou 

County. 
Sacramento   River,    Siskiyou   County..  . 

October 
October 
October 
October 
October 

October 

sion. 
W.   W.   Morgan 

Antelope   Creek,    Tehama    County          

October 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 

Klamath River,  Siskiyou  County .. 

October 

sion. 
Fish  and  Game  Commis- 

Sacramento  River,   Shasta  County .. 

October 

sion. 
L.  W.  Fouquier.. . 

Shasta   River,    Siskiyou   County ..    .. 

October 

In  Klinks  Lake,   for  Sisson  Hatchery. 

In  ponds  at  Sisson  Hatchery. 

In  Sisson  Lake,  for  Sisson  Hatchery. 

Total           —    .—    -  - 

5,950,670 

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REPORT    OF   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME   COMMISSIONERS. 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Disirihuiion,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Steelhead  Trout   (Salmo  gairdneri). 


Applicant. 

Number. 

Waters  stocked. 

Month  of 
delivery. 

North    Fork    Game    Pro- 
tective Association. 

Ocean    Shore    Railroad 
Company. 

Joseph  B.    Fleming 

60,000 
102,000 

18,000 
30,000 

18,000 
12,000 

18,000 
12,000 

9,000 

9,000 

9,000 

12,000 

18,000 

9,000 
25,000 

North  and  Middle  Forks  American  River,  Owl 
Creek  and  Gas  Canyon  Creek,  Placer  County. 

Pedro,  Tunitas,  Frenchman  and  Higgins,  Lo- 
bitas    and    Purissima    creeks,     San    Mateo 
County. 

San  Pedro  Creek,  San  Mateo  County    .- 

June 
June 

June 

J.    Boshoff  -    -  - 

Pescadero,    Butano    and    Gazos    creeks,    San 

Mateo  County. 
Mocho  Creek,  Alameda  Comity 

June 

Earle  Downing  _..    _    

June 

Geo.  F.  Zentgraflf.. 

South     Fork    American     River,     El    Dorado 

County. 
San  Leandro  and  Ivy  creeks,  Alameda  County 
South     Fork     American     River,     El     Dorado 

County. 
Sonoma  Creek,  Sonoma  County. 

July 

Earle  Downing 

Jime 

M.   A.    Miller.- 

June 

W.   R.   Stearns    ._. 

Jime 

John  P.    Orr 

Soscol  Creek.  Nana  Countv 

June 

B.   G.   Dichman  . 

Clear  Creek,  Napa  County    . 

June 

Santa  Clara  County  Fish 
and  Game  Protective 
Association. 

Dan  McCloskey      ..  ._ 

Distributed  in  streams  of  Santa  Clara  County 

Dos  Picachos,   Bird  Creek  and  Los  Muertos, 

San  Benito  County. 
Russian  River,   Sonoma  County 

June 

June 

C.  G.  Bolsdorff  ..    

September 

Fish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 

Big   Spring   Creek   at   Rupps    Lake,    Siskiyou 
County. 

October 

Total     _ 

361,000 

SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distrihution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Large  Lake  Trout  {Salmo  m.   tahoensis). 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
deliveiT. 


Nevada,    California    and 
Oregon  Railway. 

A.   D.   Shepard 

G.  A.  Caswell 

Z.   Abrams  

Total. 


15,000 

15,000 

24,000 
30,000 


84,000 


Goose  Lake,  Modoc  County 

Castle  Lake,  Siskiyou  County.. 
Medicine  Lake,  Siskiyou  County 
Abrams  Lake,  Siskiyou  County. 


July 

September 
September 
October 


REPORT    OF    BOARD   OF    FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


io 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Black-spotted  Tkout   (Salmo  in.  henshawii). 


Applicant. 


Number. 


H.    L.   Beecroft- — . 

J.  N.  Durney 

Percy  Lovejoy  

Euell  Gray  

A.  D.  Shepard 

Z.  Abrams 

Otas  E.  Pile... 

C.   M.   Parker 

Pred  SuUaway  

Pish  and  Game  Commis- 
sion. 

B.  L.    Crise— 

Total 


6,000 

15,000 

15,000 

120,000 


60,000 

20,000 

7,500 

9,000 

30,000 
20,000 

6,000 
10,000 


Waters  stocked. 


Month  of 
delivery. 


318,500 


Grizzly  Creek  and  Ice  Lake,  Plumas  County—. 

Mt.  Eddy  Lake,  Siskiyou  County 

Mt.  Eddy  Lake,  Siskiyou  County 

Cody,  Right,  Dark,  Blood,  Echo,  Succor  and 

Andrian  lakes  and  American  River,  El  Dorado 

County. 

Castle  Lake,  Siskiyou  County 

Abrams  Lake,    Siskiyou  County 

Butte  Creek  and  Oris  Lake,  Siskiyou  County.. 
Back  Fence,  Kangaroo,  Bull  and  Secret  lakes, 

Siskiyou  County. 

Wagon   Creek,   Siskiyou  County 

Big   Spring   Creek    at   Rupps   Lake,    Siskiyou 

County. 

Pauma  Creek,   San  Diego  County 

Held  in  hatchery  ponds,  Sisson. 


July 
July 
July 
September 


September 
September 
October 
October 

October 
October 

October 


SISSON    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Quinnat  Salmon. 


Date. 


Waters  stocked. 


Number. 


February 

23 

April 

2 

April 

4 

April 

4 

April       18-30 

April 

6 

April 

8 

April 

9 

AprU 

9 

April 

11 

April 

15 

April 

23 

May 

1 

May 

1 

May 

16 

May 

17 

Cold  Creek,  Siskiyou  County 

Klamath  River  at  Hornbrook,  Siskiyou  County 

Sacramento  River  at  Dunsmuir,   Siskiyou  County 

Sent  to  Sacramento  to  be  marked,  Sacramento  County 

Cold  and  Sullaway  creeks,  Siskiyou  County 

Flume  Creek,  tributary  to  Sacramento  River,  Shasta  Coimty. 

Sacramento  River  at  Lamoine,  Shasta  County 

Sacramento  River  at  Delta,  Shasta  County 

Cold  and  Sullaway  creeks,  Siskiyou  County 

Sacramento  River  at  Delta,  Shasta  County 

Cold  Creek,  tributary  to  Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou  County- 
Sacramento  River  at  Delta,  Shasta  County 

Cold  Creek,  tributary  to  Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou' County- 
Cold  Creek,  tributary  to  Sacramento  River,  Siskiyou  County- 

Sisson  Lake,   Siskiyou  County 

Sisson   Lake,   Siskiyou   County 


Total 


357,700 
350,000 
350,000 

50,000 
912,665 
350,000 
350,000 
350,000 
603,735 
350,000 
334,855 
350,000 

87,900 
294,075 
287,650 
763,975 

6,142,555 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND   GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


TAHOE    HATCHERIES. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

DiSTBiBUTiON  OF  Black-spotted  Tkout   {Salmo  m.  hcnsliawii) . 


Date. 


Waters  stocked. 


Number. 


30 

4 

7 

17 

28 
29 


July 
August 
August 
August 
August 
August 
September  5 
September  12 
September  13 
September  13 
September  13 
September  14 
September  15 
September  15 
September  18 
September  18 
September  18 
September  19 
September  19 
September  22 
September  23 
September  26 
September  27 
October  1 
October        7 


Truckee  River,  Placer  Coimty 

Ward  Creek,  Placer  County 

Slim  Jim  Creek,  Placer  County 

Griffin   Creek,   Placer  County-—; 

Truckee  River,   Placer  Coimty 

Independence   Lake,    Sierra    County 

Ward   Creek,    Placer    Coimty 

Richardson  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Summit  Lake,  Nevada  County 

Lake  Stirling,   Nevada   County 

Truckee   River,    Placer   County 

Donner  Lake,   Nevada   County 

Donner  Lake,  Nevada  County 

Burton  Creek,  El  Dorado  Coimty 

Rubicon  River,   El  Dorado   Coimty 

Richardson  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Webber  Lake,  Sierra  County 

Webber  Lake,  Sierra  County 

Donner  Lake,  Nevada  County 

Blackwood  Creek,   Placer  County 

Blackwood  Creek,   Placer  County 

Blackwood  Creek,   Placer  County 

Ward  Creek,   Placer  County 

Rock  Bound  Lakes,  El  Dorado  County- 
Experimental  work  in  Nevada  County-. 


Total 


66,300 
80,000 
70,000 
50,000 
30,000 
40,000 
42,000 
35,000 
20,000 
40,000 
40,000 
45,000 
45,000 
10,000 
40,000 
30,000 
60,000 
30,000 
15,000 
35,000 
50,000 
60,000 
30,000 
28,500 
1,337 


993,137 


TALLAC    HATCHERY. 
Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
Distribution  of  Black-spotted  Tkout  (Salmo  m.  henshawii). 


Date. 


Waters  stocked. 


June 

22 

June 

23 

June 

25 

June 

25 

June 

29 

June 

29 

July 

2 

July 

3 

July 

5 

July 

6 

July 

9 

July 

9 

July 

11 

July 

11 

July 

12 

July 

13 

July 

13 

July 

16 

July 

16 

July 

21 

m 

Taylor  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Taylor  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

TaUac  Creek,   El  Dorado   County 

Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County--. 

Tallac  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County.. 

Tallac  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Powerhouse  ditch.  El  Dorado  County.-. 
Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County-— 

Cascade  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Powerhouse  .ditch.  El  Dorado  County.. 

Cascade  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Tallac  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County—. 
Little  Truckee  River,  El  Dorado  County 

Cascade  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Taylor  Creek,   El  Dorado   County 

Taylor  Creek,   El  Dorado   County 

Powerhouse  ditch.   El  Dorado  County.-. 
Taylor  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Total   


Number. 


95,000 
40,000 
62,000 
62,000 
62,000 
62,000 
126,000 
71,000 
79,000 
62,000 
24,000 
62,000 
62,000 
62,000 
40,000 
62,000 
69,840 
68,000 
68,000 
68,011 


1.306,851 


REPORT   OP   BOARD   OF   FISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


77 


TALLAC    HATCHERY. 
Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
DisTBiBUTioN  OF  LARGE  Lake  Trout   (Salmo    m.    tahoensis). 


Date. 


Waters  stocked. 


Number. 


June 

29 

July 

11 

July 

12 

July 

13 

July 

16 

July 

22 

July 

23 

July 

24 

July 

25 

July 

25 

July 

26 

Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Fallen  Leaf  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Little  Truckee  River,  El  Dorado  County 

Cascade  Lake,   EI  Dorado  County 

Taylor  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Meyers  Creek,  El  Dorado  County 

Taylor  Creek,  El  Dorado  Coimty 

Grass  Lake,  El  Dorado  C»>unty 

Cascade  Lake,   EI  Dorado  County 

Little  Truckee  and  Angora  creeks.  El  Dorado  County 
Cascade  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

Total  


14,000 

28,000 
14,000 
14,000 
20,000 
35,000 
28,000 
35,000 
35,000 
35,000 
52.221 


310,221 


GLEN    ALPINE    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Black-spotted  Trout   (Salmo  m.  henshawii). 


Date. 


Waters  stocked. 


Number. 


July  20     Lily  Lake,  EI  Dorado  County 

July  21     Grass  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

July  22     Susie  Lake,  El  Dorado  County 

July  22     Heather  Lake,   EI  Dorado  County 

July  22     Gilmore  Lake,   El  Dorado   County 

July  23     Lucile  Lake,  EI  Dorado  County 

July  24  Half  Moon  Lake,  EI  Dorado  County.. . 

July  25     Grass   Lake,   EI  Dorado   County 

July  25     Susie  Lake,    El  Dorado   County 

July  25  Glen  Alpine  Lake,   El  Dorado  County. . 

July  23  Lake  of  the  Woods,  El  Dorado  County 

Total    


TAHOE    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
Distribution  of  Eastern  Brook  Trout  (Salvelinus  fontinalis). 


60,000 
90,000 
15,000 
45,000 
45,000 
15,000 
60,000 
30,000 
60,000 
25,649 
30,000 


475,649 


Date. 


Applicant. 


Sept.  5 

Sept.  12 

Sept.  13 

Sept.  15 

Sept.  16 

Sept.  17 

Sept.  18 

Sept.  18 

Sept.  20 

Sept.  22 

Sept.  30 


R.    Colwell   

Lawrence   &   Comstock 

F.    Gowling   

A.   Buckman  

Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and  Trans 

portation    Company. 
Lake  Tahoe  Railway    and  Trans 

portation    Company. 

P.    Pomin   

R.    Colwell   

Lake  Tahoe  Railway  and  Trans 

portation   Company. 

Lake  Tahoe  Railway 

R.    Kopke   

Total    


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


4,500 
5,000 

1,500 

900 

2,800 

2,800 

1,500 
2,800 
1,000 

1,500 
1,000 


25,300 


I 


Rubicon  River,  El  Dorado  County. 
Velnia    and    Granite    lakes.    El    Dorado 

County. 
Simimit  Lake,  Nevada  County. 
Cold  Stream,  Nevada  County. 
Watson  Lake,  Placer  County. 

Watson  Lake,  Placer  Coimty. 

Richardson  Lake,  El  Dorado  County. 
Rubicon  River,  El  Dorado  County. 
Watson  Lake,  Placer  County. 

Baker  Creek,  Placer  County. 
Truckee  River,  Nevada  County. 


78 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   FISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


UKIAH     HATCHERY. 
Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
Distribution   of  Steelhead  Trout. 


Date. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


June 
June 
June 
-June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 

June 
July 
July 
July 
July 


July    26 


C.   N.    Cox . .. 

G.    A.    Johnson 

S.  J.   HoUiday . 

W.    C.    White „. 

A.    L.   Gibson ■_ 

John   L.   Orr ^_^ 

H.  M.  Whilley 

EUiott  B.    Davis 

Dr.   0.   0.   Edwards 

C.    M.    Manon 

California    Western    Railway    and 
Navigation  Company. 

H.  M.   Kemp 

California   Anglers   Association 

California   Anglers   Association 

California    Anglers   .Association 

California   Anglers   ilssociation 

California   Anglers   AssociatioE 

Total    


10,000 
10,000 
12,000 
14,000 
16,000 
10,500 
15,000 
1.5,000 
15,000 
10,000 
50,000 

25,000 
50,000 
50,000 
28,000 
75,000 

27,958 


433.458 


Ore  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Cold  Creek,   Mendocino  County. 
Ackerman  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Reeves  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Robinson  Creek,   Mendocino  County. 
Big  River,  Mendocino  County. 
Indian  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Indian  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Navarro  River,  Mendocino  County. 
Jack  Smith  Creek,  Mendocino  County. 
Noyo  River,   Mendocino   County. 

Blue  Lakes,  Lake  County. 
Sonoma   Creek,    Sonoma   County. 
Sulphur  Creek,  Sonoma  County. 
Austin  Creek,  Sonoma  County. 
Paper  Mill  and  Lagunitas  creeks,  Marin 

County. 
Russian  River,  Mendocino  County. 


Total  steelhead  eggs  shipped  to  Ukiah  Hatchery 470,000 

Total  loss  of  eggs  and  fry 30,542 

Number   planted   433,458 


WAWONA    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribution,  Season  1912. 
Distribution  of  Rainbow  Trout. 


Date. 


Applicant. 


June  25 

June  27 

June  28 

June  29 

June  29 

July  5 

.July  13 


Dr.  A.  H.  Byers- 


Dr.  A.  H.  Byers 


B.  H.  Mace 

E.  T.  Huffman. 

A.  C.   Shaw 

B.  H.  Mace 

E.   T.   Huffman. 


July    15  I  B.  Galispe 


July  16 

July  23 

July  24 

July  30 

July  30 

July  31 

Aug.  1 

Aug.  2 

Aug.  2 

Aug.  2 


F.  C.  Boyce... 
J.  C.  WestfalL 
J.   O.  West  fall- 


United  States  Government  agents. 
J.   C.  Westfall 


J.   C.  WestfaU— 

J.   S.   Washburn. 

E.  T.  Huffman.. 

A.   C.   Shaw 

P.    C.   Boyce 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


Total 


8,757 

23,352 

5,838 
5,838 
5,838 
2,919 
11.676 
23,352 

8,757 
2,919 

5,838 

17,514 
5,838 

5,838 

46,704 

5,8.38 

5,838 

23,352 


216,006 


Lewis      and     Hogue      creeks,      Madera 

County. 
Thompson    and    Big    creeks,    Mariposa 

Coimty. 
Devils  Canyon,  Mariposa  County. 
Miami  Creek,  Madera  County. 
Woodward  Creek,   Madera  County. 
Conway  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 
Miami  Creek,  Madera  County. 
Meadow  Creek   and  Stella   Lake,    Mari- 
posa County. 
Merced  River,   Mariposa  County. 
Oliver  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 
Grizzly    and    Grouse    creeks,     Mariposa 

County. 
Ostrander  Lake,  Mariposa  County. 
Owl  Creek  and  South  Pork  ChowchiUa 

River,  Mariposa  County. 
South  Pork  Chowchilla  River,  Mariposa 

County. 
South     Pork    Merced    River,     Mariposa 

County. 
Miami   Creek,   Madera   County. 
Grove  Creek,  Madera  County. 
Big  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 


REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF   PISH    AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


79 


WAWONA    HATCHERY. 

Fish  Distribufion,  Season  1912. 

Distribution  of  Black-spotted  Tkout  {8almo  m.  henshaivii) . 


Date. 


Applicant. 


Number. 


Waters  stocked. 


July 

5 

July 

23 

July 

24 

July 

25 

July 

26 

B.    H.    Mace 

J.   O.  WestlaU 

J.   C.  Westfall 

United  States  Government  agents.- 

United  States  Government  agents. - 

Total    


5,203 

5.20H 

10,406 

52,030 

41,624 


114,466 


Conway  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 
Oliver  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 
Grizzly    and    Grouse    creeks,    Mariposa 

County. 
Grouse    and    Crescent    creeks,     Madera 

County. 
Bridal  Veil  Creek,  Mariposa  County. 


Distribution  of  Large-mouth  Black  Bass. 
(By  Fish  Car.) 


Applicant. 

Number. 

Waters  stocked. 

Month  of 
delivery. 

M.   H.   Stitt    

230 
120 
100 

75 
100 
125 

90 
110 
800 

Cache  Cteek,  Yolo  County    ._      .    ..      

Aug.   28 

Gbas.   Domenghini      

Kmpry    R.e.'sfirvoir,    Oalavpras    riniinty 

Aug.   30 

Chester  A.   Scroggs 

Laird  Mine  Hole,  Placer  County..    . 

Sept.  1 
Sept.    2 

A.   D.   Shaw _. 

Lane  Lake,  San  Benito  County. ._ 

W.  P.  Kelley 

Lake  Lagloria,  Monterey  County . 

Sept.    2 

A.   H.   Fowler.. _. 

Black  Lake,  San  Luis  Obispo  County ...    . 

Sept .    3 

W.    H.    Graves  — .    

Hughes  Lake,  Los  Angeles  County..  .  . . 

Sept.    i 

Kiles  R.  Turner. , 

Turners  Lake,  San  Bernardino  County..    . 

Sept.    4 

Los  Angeles   Park  Com- 
mission. 

HoUenbeck  Park  Lake,  Los  Angeles  County 

Sept.    5 

Total 

1,750 

50 


KEPORT   OP   BOARD   OP   PISH   AND    GAME    COMMISSIONERS. 


Following  is  a  summary  of  the  distribution  from  the  different  hatch- 
eries for  the  season  of  1912 : 

Sisson    Hatchery. 

Trout  eggs   collected  from   the  ponds   and  substations   and  received  from'  other 

hatcheries: 


Eggs. 


Loss. 


c,  .       J  *       Fry  shipped 
Shipped  to       and  held 
other        !  for 

stations.     I     breeding. 


Total 

shipped  and 

held  for 

breeding. 


Loch  Leven  trout 

Eastern  brook  trout- 
Rainbow  trout 

Steelbead    trout    

Large   lake   trout 

Black-spotted  trout 


1,500,000 
1,000,000 
6,994,000 

416,600 
92,922 

370,164 


Salmon   '    6,340,000 


206,500 
94,000 

818,330 

55,600 

8,922 

51,664 

197.445 


225,000 


1,293,500  I 
906,000  I 

5,950,670  j 

361,000 

84,000 

318,500 


8,913,670 


6,142,555         6,142,555 


15,056,225 


Tahoe    Hatcheries. 


Black-spotted   trout   3,610,622 

Large   lake   trout |        542,761 

Eastern   brook   trout 


342,821 
139,618 


492,164 
92,922 


2,775,637 

310,221 

25,300 


3,111,158 


Brookdale 

Hatchery 

Steelhead    trout    — _.    _ 

2,709,300 

603,200 

1,302,600 

803,500 

803,500 

Price    Creel<    Hatchery. 


Steelhead  trout  ]       618,000 

Salmon    1    3,240,000 


38,000 
36,340 


580,000 
3,203,660 


3,783,660 


Ul<iah    Hatchery. 

Steelhead    trout 

470,000 

36,542 

433,458 

433,458 

Wawona   Hatchery. 

Rainbow  trout 

3Ut     

225,000 

—    -      122,000 

8,994 
7.. 5.34 

216,006 
114,466 

Black-spotted  tn 

330,472 

I              ' 

Sacramento    Experimental   Sta 

tion. 

Salmon       --  —    .. 

1,768,000           418,000 

450, -000 

900,000 

900,000 

IVIill  Creek  Station. 

Salmon   

9,364,550 

94,320 

607,000 

8,663,230 

8,663,230 

Black    Bass. 

Adult  black  bass 

caught 

up  and  distributed  for  hrp 

'eders    

1,750 

Total. 

Trout  distributed  and  held  for  breeding  in  State  of  California  during 

season  of  1912 14,172,258 

Salmon  distributed  in  State  of  California  during  season  of  1912 18,909,445 

Black  bass  distributed  in  State  of  California  during  season  of  1912 1,750 


Total 33,083,453 


Fifty  thousand  grayling  eggs  received  from  U.  S.  Bureau  of  Fisheries,  at  Boze- 
man,   Montana. 

Ten  thousand  grayling  fry  were  shipped  to  Monterey  County,  but  were  lost  by 
applicant. 

After  the  eggs  were  hatched  the  fry  were  placed  in  one  of  the  ponds  at  Sisson. 
They  have  not  been  counted  and  the  number  remaining  in  the  ponds  is  not  known. 


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